sillonner
\si.jɔ.ne\
The verdict
“sillonner” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,148. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,148
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des sillons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sillonner · sillonner · French
sillonner · rank #43,148 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,148
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sillonne
Nearest frequency peer: sillonne (-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 « sillonner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sigles
sigles
56,856 corpus weight
- Sillery
Sillery
56,855 corpus weight
- sillonne
sillonne
56,854 corpus weight
- sillonner
sillonner
56,853 corpus weight
- simulant
simulant
56,852 corpus weight
- sinn
sinn
56,851 corpus weight
What this shows « sillonner » 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 | sillonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.jɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sillonner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sillonner (IPA \si.jɔ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,148 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sillonner, with forms such as "isllonner", "sillnoner", and "sillonenr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sillonne", "sillonnent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sillonner, spelled S-I-L-L-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire des sillons.
- 2Marquer d'un sillon.
- 3Laisser des traces de son passage.
- 4Parcourir en tous sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sillonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut observer que, si l’on plante en côtes, il faut sillonner en travers, cela conserve la fraicheur & les terres ; au lieu de quoi si l’on sillonnoit de haut en bas, les pluies feroient des ravins : […].
— […], ils supprimèrent les innombrables droits de douane qui sillonnaient le sol de la France et qui le déchiraient dans tous les sens; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isllonner
- sillnoner
- sillonenr
- silloner
- sillonnerr
- sillonnre
- silolnner
- silonner
- slilonner
- ssillonner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sillonner - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
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