sincère
\sɛ̃.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“sincère” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,401
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est franc, véridique, qui dit ce qu’il pense, ce qu’il sent réellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sincere · sincère · French
sincère · rank #5,401 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,401
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sentent
Nearest frequency peer: sentent (-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 « sincère »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saints
saints
94,603 corpus weight
- sentent
sentent
94,601 corpus weight
- sincère
sincère
94,600 corpus weight
- sincèrement
sincèrement
94,599 corpus weight
- soyons
soyons
94,598 corpus weight
- supérieures
supérieures
94,597 corpus weight
What this shows « sincère » 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 | sincère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sincère »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around sincère (IPA \sɛ̃.sɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,401 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sincère, with forms such as "isncère", "sicnère", and "sinccère". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "singer", "sincères", "sincérité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is sincère, spelled S-I-N-C-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est franc, véridique, qui dit ce qu’il pense, ce qu’il sent réellement.
- 2Qui est pensé, senti réellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sincère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, tu me diras ta vie, au bord de tes lèvres sincères, je la verrai.
Comment se fait-il que la vérité fuie devant nous comme si ce n’était pas de la vérité, et qu’on ne puisse pas, malgré sa sincérité, être sincère ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isncère
- sicnère
- sinccère
- sincere
- sincrèe
- sincèer
- sincèrre
- sinncère
- sinècre
- snicère
- ssincère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sincère - 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 "sincère", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).