somnolence
\sɔm.nɔ.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“somnolence” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,504. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,504
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’inertie, de songe, ou de torpeur, lié à la fatigue, à la chaleur ou au froid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-somnolence · somnolence · French
somnolence · rank #40,504 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,504
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sobriquet
Nearest frequency peer: sobriquet (-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 « somnolence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sixtine
Sixtine
59,500 corpus weight
- skieuse
skieuse
59,499 corpus weight
- sobriquet
sobriquet
59,498 corpus weight
- somnolence
somnolence
59,497 corpus weight
- somptueuses
somptueuses
59,496 corpus weight
- sophisme
sophisme
59,495 corpus weight
What this shows « somnolence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | somnolence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔm.nɔ.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #40,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « somnolence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around somnolence (IPA \sɔm.nɔ.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,504 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État d’inertie, de songe, ou de torpeur, lié à la fatigue, à la chaleur ou au froid.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for somnolence, with forms such as "osmnolence", "smonolence", and "sommnolence". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is somnolence, spelled S-O-M-N-O-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1État d’inertie, de songe, ou de torpeur, lié à la fatigue, à la chaleur ou au froid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how somnolence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y eut encore entre ce moment de somnolence et le sommeil réel un intervalle pareil à celui du crépuscule, qui sépare le jour de la nuit, intervalle bizarre et indescriptible pendant lequel la réalité se confond avec le rêve, de manière qu’il n’y a ni rêve ni réalité.
Et puis, surtout, midi approche, avec sa lassitude, avec son invincible somnolence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osmnolence
- smonolence
- sommnolence
- somnloence
- somnnolence
- somnoelnce
- somnolecne
- somnolencce
- somnolenec
- somnolennce
- somnollence
- somnolnece
- somonlence
- sonmolence
- ssomnolence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of somnolence - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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