sociologie
\sɔ.sjɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
The verdict
“sociologie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,760
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science, étude des phénomènes sociaux, des relations humaines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sociologie · sociologie · French
sociologie · rank #6,760 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,760
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signalé
Nearest frequency peer: signalé (-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 « sociologie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- seigneurs
seigneurs
93,244 corpus weight
- set
set
93,243 corpus weight
- signalé
signalé
93,242 corpus weight
- sociologie
sociologie
93,241 corpus weight
- sortira
sortira
93,240 corpus weight
- souhaiter
souhaiter
93,239 corpus weight
What this shows « sociologie » 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 | sociologie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.sjɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sociologie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sociologie (IPA \sɔ.sjɔ.lɔ.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,760 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Science, étude des phénomènes sociaux, des relations humaines.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sociologie, with forms such as "osciologie", "scoiologie", and "socciologie". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sociologue", "sociologues", "sociologique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 sociologie, spelled S-O-C-I-O-L-O-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science, étude des phénomènes sociaux, des relations humaines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sociologie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la Sorbonne, personne ne suivait les cours de sociologie, ni ceux de psychologie, tant ils nous semblaient insipides.
La sociologie américaine nous vient d'un monde où les jeunes, avant même l'invention de la pilule, avaient le droit de s'envoyer en l’air sur les banquettes arrière des voitures. Ils ne le faisaient cependant qu'en vitesse et avec un appel immodéré à la fellation. Sans être tout à fait puceaux, ils arrivaient pour l'essentiel vierges au mariage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osciologie
- scoiologie
- socciologie
- sociloogie
- sociolgoie
- sociollogie
- sociologei
- sociologgie
- socioloige
- socioolgie
- socoilogie
- soicologie
- ssociologie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sociologie - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).