silhouettes
\si.lwɛt\
The verdict
“silhouettes” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,032
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de silhouette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silhouettes · silhouettes · French
silhouettes · rank #24,032 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,032
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signalant
Nearest frequency peer: signalant (-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 « silhouettes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- semence
semence
75,972 corpus weight
- sevrage
sevrage
75,971 corpus weight
- signalant
signalant
75,970 corpus weight
- silhouettes
silhouettes
75,969 corpus weight
- silvio
silvio
75,968 corpus weight
- simpliste
simpliste
75,966 corpus weight
What this shows « silhouettes » 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 | silhouettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.lwɛt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silhouettes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around silhouettes (IPA \si.lwɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,032 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de silhouette.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for silhouettes, with forms such as "islhouettes", "sihlouettes", and "silhhouettes". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "silhouette", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is silhouettes, spelled S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de silhouette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how silhouettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les silhouettes des buissons frangeaient son chemin et il allait, tête levée, respirant large.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islhouettes
- sihlouettes
- silhhouettes
- silhoeuttes
- silhouetes
- silhouetets
- silhouettess
- silhouettse
- silhoutetes
- silhuoettes
- sillhouettes
- silohuettes
- slihouettes
- ssilhouettes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silhouettes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "silhouettes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).