situé
\si.tɥe\
The verdict
“situé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,497
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se trouve en un lieu identifié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-situe · situé · French
situé · rank #1,497 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,497
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexe
Nearest frequency peer: sexe (-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 « situé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- retard
retard
98,507 corpus weight
- savent
savent
98,506 corpus weight
- sexe
sexe
98,505 corpus weight
- situé
situé
98,504 corpus weight
- tenu
tenu
98,503 corpus weight
- verre
verre
98,501 corpus weight
What this shows « situé » 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 | situé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \si.tɥe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « situé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around situé (IPA \si.tɥe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,497 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 situé, with forms such as "istué", "sittué", and "situe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ste", "size", "stud", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 situé, spelled S-I-T-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui se trouve en un lieu identifié.
- 2Qui commente ou observe depuis un certain point de vue théorique, ou avec une expérience particulière de la situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how situé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une maison bien située.
Les théoriciennes des savoirs situés partent du constat que « l’universel » a souvent servi à imposer le point de vue des dominants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- istué
- sittué
- situe
- sitéu
- siuté
- ssitué
- stiué
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of situé - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).