silicone

\si.li.kon\

/\si.li.kon\/ noun

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The verdict

“silicone” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,811
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé inorganique formés d’une chaine silicium-oxygène (ou siloxane) […-Si-O-Si-O-Si-O-…] dans laquelle des groupes [R] se fixent, sur les atomes de silicium.

Corpus desk

Index FR-silicone · silicone · French

silicone · rank #25,811 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,811
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sociologiques

Nearest frequency peer: sociologiques (+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 « silicone »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « silicone » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

silicone vs silice
75% similar
silicone vs silicon
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for silicone
PropertyValue
Headwordsilicone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.li.kon\
Letters8
Frequency rank#25,811
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silicone »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).siliconese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sociologiques » (#25,812), « soute » (#25,813), « semelles » (#25,808). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « silicone » est au #25,811. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around silicone (IPA \si.li.kon\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,811 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for silicone, with forms such as "islicone", "siilcone", and "silcione". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "silice", "silicon", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is silicone, spelled S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Composé inorganique formés d’une chaine silicium-oxygène (ou siloxane) […-Si-O-Si-O-Si-O-…] dans laquelle des groupes [R] se fixent, sur les atomes de silicium.
  2. 2
    Mastic à base de ce composé et vendu généralement en cartouche.
  3. 3
    Mastic à base de ce composé et vendu généralement en cartouche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how silicone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Avec ou sans couvercles, en petits cubes ou en forme de cœur, de fleur ou de licorne, les bacs à glaçons sont bien souvent proposés en silicone ou en plastique.
  2. Ce n’est pas parce qu’on s’habille en L.A. Gear et qu’on s’injecte de la silicone qu’on est plus porté sur le crime que le reste de la population.

Synonyms

polysiloxane

This word in other languages

silicone(English)Silikon(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • islicone
  • siilcone
  • silcione
  • siliccone
  • silicnoe
  • silicoen
  • siliconne
  • siliocne
  • sillicone
  • sliicone
  • ssilicone

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silicone - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

islicone2siilcone2silcione2siliccone1silicnoe2silicoen2siliconne1siliocne2
Edit distance from "silicone"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "silicone"?
"silicone" is spelled S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \si.li.kon\.
What does "silicone" mean?
As a noun, "silicone" means: Composé inorganique formés d’une chaine silicium-oxygène (ou siloxane) […-Si-O-Si-O-Si-O-…] dans laquelle des groupes [R] se fixent, sur les atomes de silicium.
What words are commonly confused with "silicone"?
"silicone" is commonly confused with "silice", "silicon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "silicone"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "silicone" is \si.li.kon\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "silicone" come from?
"silicone" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "silicone", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

semelles#25,808sarcasme#25,805révélait#25,804submergé#25,824

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Savigny11 variantsstrange11 variantsRichter11 variantsRabelais11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list