sitôt

\si.to\

/\si.to\/ adv

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The verdict

“sitôt” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,799. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,799
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aussitôt.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sitot · sitôt · French

sitôt · rank #14,799 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,799
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH shérif

Nearest frequency peer: shérif (-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 « sitôt »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « sitôt » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sitôt vs sot
40% similar
sitôt vs sto
40% similar
sitôt vs stop
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sitôt
PropertyValue
Headwordsitôt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdverb
IPA\si.to\
Letters5
Frequency rank#14,799
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sitôt »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sitôtse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « shérif » (#14,798), « soufflé » (#14,800), « sexisme » (#14,797). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sitôt » est au #14,799. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around sitôt (IPA \si.to\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #14,799 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Aussitôt.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for sitôt, with forms such as "istôt", "sitot", and "sittô". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sot", "sto", "stop", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is sitôt, spelled S-I-T-Ô-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Aussitôt.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sitôt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Votre affaire ne sera pas sitôt finie que la mienne. Je n’arriverai pas sitôt que vous.
  2. Avant que de recevoir sa visite, à laquelle j'étais fort éloigné de m'attendre sitôt, je reçois celle de M. le Lieutenant général de Police, ou, pour expliquer les choses par leur nom, je subis l'interrogatoire.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • istôt
  • sitot
  • sittô
  • sittôt
  • sitôtt
  • siôtt
  • ssitôt
  • stiôt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sitôt - 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.

istôt2sitot1sittô2sittôt1sitôtt1siôtt2ssitôt1stiôt2
Edit distance from "sitôt"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sitôt"?
"sitôt" is spelled S-I-T-Ô-T. The IPA pronunciation is \si.to\.
What does "sitôt" mean?
As an adverb, "sitôt" means: Aussitôt.
What words are commonly confused with "sitôt"?
"sitôt" is commonly confused with "sot", "sto", "stop". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sitôt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sitôt" is \si.to\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sitôt" come from?
"sitôt" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sitôt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sweet#14,805saxon#14,792taule#14,806taupe#14,807

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

review8 variantsviable8 variantsvoyous8 variantsprieur8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list