Sirius
\si.ʁjys\
The verdict
“Sirius” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,745
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoile principale de la constellation du Grand Chien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sirius · Sirius · French
Sirius · rank #28,745 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,745
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silice
Nearest frequency peer: silice (-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 « Sirius »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sentons
sentons
71,259 corpus weight
- shampooing
shampooing
71,258 corpus weight
- silice
silice
71,257 corpus weight
- Sirius
Sirius
71,256 corpus weight
- sismique
sismique
71,255 corpus weight
- sketchs
sketchs
71,254 corpus weight
What this shows « Sirius » 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 | Sirius |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁjys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sirius »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sirius (IPA \si.ʁjys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,745 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Étoile principale de la constellation du Grand Chien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sirius, with forms such as "isrius", "siirus", and "sirisu". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sirops", "siri", "sinus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Sirius, spelled S-I-R-I-U-S.
Definition
- 1Étoile principale de la constellation du Grand Chien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sirius appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vue de la Terre, Sirius est l’étoile la plus brillante du ciel (après le Soleil).
Madame, reprit Paul Vence, je ne dirai pas, comme Renan, mon maître bien-aimé : « Qu’est-ce que cela fait à Sirius ? » parce qu’on me répondrait raisonnablement : « Que fait le gros Sirius à la petite Terre ? »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isrius
- siirus
- sirisu
- siriuss
- sirrius
- siruis
- sriius
- ssirius
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sirius - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sirius", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).