Sodome
\sɔ.dɔm\
The verdict
“Sodome” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,622. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,622
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville biblique citée dans la Genèse (15–18) et qui aurait été située au sud de la mer Morte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sodome · Sodome · French
Sodome · rank #42,622 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,622
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Singapore
Nearest frequency peer: Singapore (-2 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 « Sodome »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Shinji
Shinji
57,383 corpus weight
- Sikhs
Sikhs
57,382 corpus weight
- Singapore
Singapore
57,381 corpus weight
- Sodome
Sodome
57,379 corpus weight
- somaliens
somaliens
57,377 corpus weight
- Sottise
Sottise
57,376 corpus weight
What this shows « Sodome » 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 | Sodome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.dɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sodome »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sodome (IPA \sɔ.dɔm\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,622 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville biblique citée dans la Genèse (15–18) et qui aurait été située au sud de la mer Morte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sodome, with forms such as "osdome", "sdoome", and "soddome". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "some", "somme", "sonore", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Sodome, spelled S-O-D-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Ville biblique citée dans la Genèse (15–18) et qui aurait été située au sud de la mer Morte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sodome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il aboutissait enfin, au crépuscule, à ce Paris Gomorrhe, à ce Paris Sodome, s’allumant pour la nuit, pour les abominations de cette nuit complice, dont la cendre fine, peu à peu, noyait l’océan des toitures.
Sodome est la ville du Secret, et Gomorrhe est la ville de la Rébellion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osdome
- sdoome
- soddome
- sodmoe
- sodoem
- sodomme
- soodme
- ssodome
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sodome - 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
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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).