situer
\si.tɥe\
The verdict
“situer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,054
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Placer, poser en certain endroit par rapport à l’exposition, à l’aspect, au voisinage, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-situer · situer · French
situer · rank #12,054 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,054
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silencieuse
Nearest frequency peer: silencieuse (-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 « situer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sceau
sceau
87,950 corpus weight
- signataires
signataires
87,949 corpus weight
- silencieuse
silencieuse
87,948 corpus weight
- situer
situer
87,947 corpus weight
- sketch
sketch
87,946 corpus weight
- slip
slip
87,945 corpus weight
What this shows « situer » 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 | situer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \si.tɥe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « situer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around situer (IPA \si.tɥe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,054 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for situer, with forms such as "istuer", "siteur", and "sittuer". 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, "suer", "situés", "Sutter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 situer, spelled S-I-T-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Placer, poser en certain endroit par rapport à l’exposition, à l’aspect, au voisinage, etc.
- 2Assigner une place en imagination, dans son esprit.
- 3Avoir sa place, dans l'espace ou dans le temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how situer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le duc de Guise reconduisit sa belle-sœur, la duchesse de Nevers, en son hôtel qui était situé rue du Chaume, en face de la rue de Brac, […].
Avant l'arrivée des Magyars, les Slaves méridionaux occupaient toute la plaine danubienne et le noyau de leur puissance était situé entre le Rab, le Danube et la Drave.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- istuer
- siteur
- sittuer
- situerr
- siture
- siuter
- ssituer
- stiuer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of situer - 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.
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 "situer", 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).