simulacre
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,312
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
simulacre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Image, statue, idole, représentation d’une fausse divinité. Pronounced \si.my.lakʁ\. Often confused with similaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | simulacre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.my.lakʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for simulacre is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.my.lakʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,312 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for simulacre, with forms such as "ismulacre", "simluacre", and "simmulacre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "similaire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is simulacre, spelled S-I-M-U-L-A-C-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Image, statue, idole, représentation d’une fausse divinité.
- 2Apparence qu’on pourrait prendre pour une réalité : illusion, fantôme, spectre, ectoplasme, apparition.
- 3Apparence, représentation d’un objet. (Style relevé ou parodique) Représentation d’un objet noble ou prisé.
- 4Action exécutée pour faire illusion, sans conviction ; faux-semblant, comédie, chiqué.
- 5(Du point de vue d’un contradicteur) Mauvaise imitation.
- 6Action simulée. En particulier, exercice militaire fait dans des conditions simulées, à titre d'examen ou d'essai, dans une situation fictive. Un simulacre de combat naval.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ismulacre,simluacre,simmulacre,simualcre,simulaccre,simulacer,simulacrre,simularce,simulcare,simullacre,siumlacre,smiulacre,ssimulacre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for simulacre
Misspelling Variants of "simulacre"
Frequency rank: #34,312 in French
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