sodomie

\sɔ.dɔ.mi\

/\sɔ.dɔ.mi\/ noun

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The verdict

“sodomie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,323. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,323
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute relation sexuelle hors mariage ou sans visée procréative.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sodomie · sodomie · French

sodomie · rank #18,323 · 9 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,323
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH skate

Nearest frequency peer: skate (-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 « sodomie »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « sodomie » 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).

sodomie vs sodomiser
78% similar
sodomie vs Sodome
71% similar

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

Key facts for sodomie
PropertyValue
Headwordsodomie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɔ.dɔ.mi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,323
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sodomie »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.sodomiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « skate » (#18,322), « sifflet » (#18,321), « souterraines » (#18,325). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sodomie » est au #18,323. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around sodomie (IPA \sɔ.dɔ.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,323 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sodomie, with forms such as "osdomie", "sdoomie", and "soddomie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sodomiser", "Sodome", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 sodomie, spelled S-O-D-O-M-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Toute relation sexuelle hors mariage ou sans visée procréative.
  2. 2
    Acte sexuel de pénétration anale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Jeffrey Merrick souligne qu’au XVIIIe siècle, le vocable sodomie renvoie à la cité biblique de Sodome, et ceci désigne les actes non procréatifs parmi lesquels : masturbation, bestialité, sexe anal...
  2. Le chercheur Régis Revenin précise: «En 1791, c'est le crime de sodomie qui a été dépénalisé par les révolutionnaires, cela ne comprenait pas uniquement ce qu'on appelle de nos jours l'homosexualité, mais l'ensemble des actes sexuels sans visée procréative.»

Synonyms

enculadesodomisation

This word in other languages

sodomy(English)sodomía(Español)Analsex(Deutsch)sodomia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osdomie
  • sdoomie
  • soddomie
  • sodmoie
  • sodoime
  • sodomei
  • sodommie
  • soodmie
  • ssodomie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sodomie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

osdomie2sdoomie2soddomie1sodmoie2sodoime2sodomei2sodommie1soodmie2
Edit distance from "sodomie"

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 "sodomie"?
"sodomie" is spelled S-O-D-O-M-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɔ.dɔ.mi\.
What does "sodomie" mean?
As a noun, "sodomie" means: Toute relation sexuelle hors mariage ou sans visée procréative.
What words are commonly confused with "sodomie"?
"sodomie" is commonly confused with "sodomiser", "Sodome". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sodomie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sodomie" is \sɔ.dɔ.mi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sodomie" come from?
"sodomie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sifflet#18,321régence#18,314risquez#18,312renouer#18,305

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

shadow9 variantssucrée9 variantsrêvait9 variantsrentes9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list