sitter

\ˈsɪ.tə\

/\ˈsɪ.tə\/ noun

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The verdict

“sitter” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,739
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Modèle, sujet, personne posant pour un portrait.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sitter · sitter · French

sitter · rank #31,739 · 7 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,739
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sinistrés

Nearest frequency peer: sinistrés (-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 « sitter »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sitter » 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).

sitter vs situé
50% similar
sitter vs sotte
67% similar
sitter vs sixte
67% similar

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

Key facts for sitter
PropertyValue
Headwordsitter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈsɪ.tə\
Letters6
Frequency rank#31,739
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sitter »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).sitterse 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 « sinistrés » (#31,738), « slide » (#31,740), « Siméon » (#31,737). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sitter » est au #31,739. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around sitter (IPA \ˈsɪ.tə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,739 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for sitter, with forms such as "istter", "siter", and "sitetr". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "situé", "sotte", "sixte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is sitter, spelled S-I-T-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Modèle, sujet, personne posant pour un portrait.
  2. 2
    Personne qui s’occupe d’une personne malade ou des biens, des enfants, des animaux de compagnie d’une personne absente.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. She always hopes to imbue a portrait with the sitter’s character.
  2. It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • istter
  • siter
  • sitetr
  • sitterr
  • sittre
  • ssitter
  • stiter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sitter - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

istter2siter1sitetr2sitterr1sittre2ssitter1stiter2
Edit distance from "sitter"

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 "sitter"?
"sitter" is spelled S-I-T-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈsɪ.tə\.
What does "sitter" mean?
As a noun, "sitter" means: Modèle, sujet, personne posant pour un portrait.
What words are commonly confused with "sitter"?
"sitter" is commonly confused with "situé", "sotte", "sixte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sitter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sitter" is \ˈsɪ.tə\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sitter" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Siméon#31,737songez#31,742scream#31,731salins#31,727

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

slide7 variantssigma7 variantsRollin7 variantsVogel7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list