sieste
\sjɛst\
The verdict
“sieste” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,785. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,785
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sommeil auquel on se livre après le déjeuner, pendant la chaleur du jour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sieste · sieste · French
sieste · rank #10,785 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,785
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH seniors
Nearest frequency peer: seniors (-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 « sieste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saumon
saumon
89,218 corpus weight
- seniors
seniors
89,217 corpus weight
- sieste
sieste
89,216 corpus weight
- signés
signés
89,215 corpus weight
- silhouette
silhouette
89,214 corpus weight
- splendide
splendide
89,213 corpus weight
What this shows « sieste » 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 | sieste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɛst\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sieste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around sieste (IPA \sjɛst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,785 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sommeil auquel on se livre après le déjeuner, pendant la chaleur du jour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sieste, with forms such as "iseste", "seiste", and "sieset". 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, "site", "sise", "sixte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sieste, spelled S-I-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sommeil auquel on se livre après le déjeuner, pendant la chaleur du jour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sieste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En attendant la nourriture, nous allâmes faire la sieste ; c’est une habitude qu’il faut prendre absolument en Espagne, car la chaleur, de deux heures à cinq heures, est quelque chose dont un Parisien ne peut pas se faire une idée.
Les quelques verres de Laffitte, que j’avais bus à petits coups, avaient eu l’effet de m’assoupir, et je sentis l’envie de faire une sieste de quinze ou vingt minutes, comme c’est ma coutume après le dîner.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iseste
- seiste
- sieset
- siesste
- siestte
- sietse
- sisete
- ssieste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sieste - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).