signalement
\si.ɲal.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“signalement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,005
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Description d’une personne par les signes extérieurs qui peuvent la faire reconnaître.
Corpus desk
Index FR-signalement · signalement · French
signalement · rank #17,005 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,005
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sembles
Nearest frequency peer: sembles (-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 « signalement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scellé
scellé
82,999 corpus weight
- sci
sci
82,998 corpus weight
- sembles
sembles
82,997 corpus weight
- signalement
signalement
82,996 corpus weight
- signifiait
signifiait
82,995 corpus weight
- siéger
siéger
82,994 corpus weight
What this shows « signalement » 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 | signalement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ɲal.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #17,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « signalement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around signalement (IPA \si.ɲal.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,005 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for signalement, with forms such as "isgnalement", "sginalement", and "siganlement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "signalent", "signalements", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is signalement, spelled S-I-G-N-A-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Description d’une personne par les signes extérieurs qui peuvent la faire reconnaître.
- 2Action de signaler un fait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how signalement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment la police ne le découvre-t-elle pas ? Est-ce qu’on n’a pas son signalement ?
Un dimanche après-midi, alors que j'étais de semaine, occupé au bureau des brigades à copier des signalements, un télégramme arriva de Lothiers, grosse agglomération située sur la route nationale, à mi-chemin entre Châteauroux et Argenton.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isgnalement
- sginalement
- siganlement
- siggnalement
- signaelment
- signaleemnt
- signalemennt
- signalementt
- signalemetn
- signalemment
- signalemnet
- signallement
- signalmeent
- signlaement
- signnalement
- singalement
- ssignalement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of signalement - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).