silex
\si.lɛks\
The verdict
“silex” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,854
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche chimique siliceuse très dure se présentant sous forme de nodules de taille variable à la surface ou dans les formations calcaires et constituée de calcédoine presque pure et d’impuretés telle...
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Index FR-silex · silex · French
silex · rank #20,854 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,854
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signifient
Nearest frequency peer: signifient (-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 « silex »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sciemment
sciemment
79,150 corpus weight
- Shirley
Shirley
79,149 corpus weight
- signifient
signifient
79,148 corpus weight
- silex
silex
79,147 corpus weight
- slow
slow
79,146 corpus weight
- sortais
sortais
79,144 corpus weight
What this shows « silex » 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 | silex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.lɛks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silex »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around silex (IPA \si.lɛks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,854 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Roche chimique siliceuse très dure se présentant sous forme de nodules de taille variable à la surface ou dans les formations calcaires et constituée de calcédoine presque pure et d’impuretés telle...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for silex, with forms such as "islex", "sielx", and "silexx". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "six", "site", "sire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is silex, spelled S-I-L-E-X.
Definition
- 1Roche chimique siliceuse très dure se présentant sous forme de nodules de taille variable à la surface ou dans les formations calcaires et constituée de calcédoine presque pure et d’impuretés telles que de l'eau ou des oxydes, ces derniers influant sur sa couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'homme primitif, […], ne savait mettre en usage que des os, des cailloux, des débris de silex, et c'est avec ces matériaux qu'il fabriquait ses armes grossières et ses rares ustensiles, ainsi que le font encore quelques peuplades sauvages de la Polynésie.
Les éléments dominants de ses alluvions sont les silex dérivés de l'argile à silex, des nodules de phosphate de chaux, de quartz, et des fragments de grès: […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islex
- sielx
- silexx
- sillex
- silxe
- sliex
- ssilex
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silex - 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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).