Sex
\sɛks\
The verdict
“Sex” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,888) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,888
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sexe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sex · Sex · French
Sex · rank #6,888 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,888
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH semblerait
Nearest frequency peer: semblerait (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Sex »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ressent
ressent
93,117 corpus weight
- revendicati…
revendications
93,116 corpus weight
- semblerait
semblerait
93,114 corpus weight
- Sex
Sex
93,113 corpus weight
- soeurs
soeurs
93,111 corpus weight
- soie
soie
93,110 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Sex » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Sex »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Sex is neighbouring look-alikes ("si", "st", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \sɛks\. Frequency #6,888 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Sexe.".
Sex doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "si", "st", "su", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Sex, spelled S-E-X.
Definition
- 1Sexe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Unfälle beim Sex passieren. Manchmal sind sie so schwer, dass Patienten in Lebensgefahr schweben - und aus Scham nicht ins Krankenhaus kommen wollen.
Die ehemalige Pornodarstellerin Stormy Daniels behauptet, dass Trump im Jahr 2006 am Rande eines Golfturniers in Nevada Sex mit ihr hatte. Vor den Wahlen im Jahr 2016 hat er ihr 130 000 Dollar gezahlt, damit sie das für sich behält.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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