sexiste
\sɛk.sist\
The verdict
“sexiste” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,407
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait preuve de sexisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sexiste · sexiste · French
sexiste · rank #19,407 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,407
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sermon
Nearest frequency peer: sermon (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « sexiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saxonne
saxonne
80,597 corpus weight
- schizophrén…
schizophrénie
80,596 corpus weight
- sermon
sermon
80,595 corpus weight
- sexiste
sexiste
80,594 corpus weight
- slaves
slaves
80,593 corpus weight
- soignants
soignants
80,591 corpus weight
What this shows « sexiste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | sexiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛk.sist\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sexiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sexiste (IPA \sɛk.sist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,407 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui fait preuve de sexisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sexiste, with forms such as "esxiste", "seixste", and "sexiset". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "soliste", "sudiste", "sexistes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sexiste, spelled S-E-X-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui fait preuve de sexisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sexiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’un d'eux tapait sur l’épaule d'une collègue, dans le couloir, et lui disait « Femme à lunettes, femme à quéquettes… ». Des vrais petits machos sexistes.
Pourtant, la discrimination sexiste reste omniprésente dans toutes les régions du monde. Elle se manifeste par la préférence accordée aux fils plutôt qu’aux filles, par les possibilités restreintes d’études et de travail imposées aux filles et aux femmes et par des formes de violence sexiste caractérisée, par exemple des violences physiques et sexuelles.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esxiste
- seixste
- sexiset
- sexisste
- sexistte
- sexitse
- sexsite
- sexxiste
- ssexiste
- sxeiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sexiste - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).