silencieuse
\si.lɑ̃.sjøz\
The verdict
“silencieuse” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,053. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,053
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de silencieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silencieuse · silencieuse · French
silencieuse · rank #12,053 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,053
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signataires
Nearest frequency peer: signataires (-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 « silencieuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- scandales
scandales
87,951 corpus weight
- sceau
sceau
87,950 corpus weight
- signataires
signataires
87,949 corpus weight
- silencieuse
silencieuse
87,948 corpus weight
- situer
situer
87,947 corpus weight
- sketch
sketch
87,946 corpus weight
What this shows « silencieuse » 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 | silencieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.lɑ̃.sjøz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silencieuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around silencieuse (IPA \si.lɑ̃.sjøz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,053 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de silencieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for silencieuse, with forms such as "islencieuse", "sielncieuse", and "silecnieuse". 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, "silencieux", "silencieuses", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is silencieuse, spelled S-I-L-E-N-C-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de silencieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how silencieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le feuillage de quelques arbustes froissés retentit dans le silence, comme le murmure d’une onde agitée ; mais quoiqu’ils prêtassent l’oreille pour saisir quelques nouveaux sons, la terre resta silencieuse et garda le secret des pas de l’inconnue, si toutefois elle avait marché.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islencieuse
- sielncieuse
- silecnieuse
- silenccieuse
- silenceiuse
- silenciesue
- silencieues
- silencieusse
- silenciuese
- sileniceuse
- silenncieuse
- sillencieuse
- silnecieuse
- sliencieuse
- ssilencieuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silencieuse - 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).