sexuel
\sɛk.sɥɛl\
The verdict
“sexuel” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,712
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au sexe, chez l’être humain, les animaux et les plantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sexuel · sexuel · French
sexuel · rank #4,712 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,712
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SMS
Nearest frequency peer: SMS (+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 « sexuel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- républicains
républicains
95,292 corpus weight
- révolutionn…
révolutionnaire
95,291 corpus weight
- sexuel
sexuel
95,289 corpus weight
- SMS
SMS
95,288 corpus weight
- soigner
soigner
95,287 corpus weight
- soirées
soirées
95,286 corpus weight
What this shows « sexuel » 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 | sexuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛk.sɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sexuel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sexuel (IPA \sɛk.sɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,712 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sexuel, with forms such as "esxuel", "seuxel", and "sexeul". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "sexuels", "sexuelle", "sexuelles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 sexuel, spelled S-E-X-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au sexe, chez l’être humain, les animaux et les plantes.
- 2Relatif à la sexualité.
- 3Qui aime à faire l’amour ; qui provoque cet instinct chez l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sexuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque l’homosexualité intégrera la normalité, il faudra alors instituer le régime isosexuel où tous les rôles sexuels seront abolis.
Les différences sexuelles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esxuel
- seuxel
- sexeul
- sexuell
- sexule
- sexxuel
- ssexuel
- sxeuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sexuel - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).