sincérité
\sɛ̃.se.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“sincérité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,237. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,237
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de celui ou ce qui est sincère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sincerite · sincérité · French
sincérité · rank #9,237 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,237
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sierra
Nearest frequency peer: sierra (-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 « sincérité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- respectueux
respectueux
90,767 corpus weight
- rubrique
rubrique
90,766 corpus weight
- sierra
sierra
90,765 corpus weight
- sincérité
sincérité
90,764 corpus weight
- soigneuseme…
soigneusement
90,763 corpus weight
- sorcière
sorcière
90,762 corpus weight
What this shows « sincérité » 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 | sincérité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.se.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sincérité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sincérité (IPA \sɛ̃.se.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,237 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Caractère de celui ou ce qui est sincère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sincérité, with forms such as "isncérité", "sicnérité", and "sinccérité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "sincère", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sincérité, spelled S-I-N-C-É-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de celui ou ce qui est sincère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sincérité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les flagorneries dédicatoires des écrivains louis-quatorziens aplatis sur les marches du trône paraissent aujourd'hui si délirantes, que nous nous interrogeons sur leur sincérité, voire leur lucidité.
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 ?
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isncérité
- sicnérité
- sinccérité
- sincerite
- sincréité
- sincéirté
- sincéritté
- sincériét
- sincérrité
- sincértié
- sinncérité
- sinécrité
- snicérité
- ssincérité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sincérité - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).