sorcellerie
\sɔʁ.sɛl(ə).ʁi\
The verdict
“sorcellerie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,364
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art des sorciers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sorcellerie · sorcellerie · French
sorcellerie · rank #14,364 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,364
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Shawn
Nearest frequency peer: Shawn (-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 « sorcellerie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- secouer
secouer
85,640 corpus weight
- semences
semences
85,639 corpus weight
- Shawn
Shawn
85,638 corpus weight
- sorcellerie
sorcellerie
85,637 corpus weight
- Spotify
Spotify
85,636 corpus weight
- suggèrent
suggèrent
85,634 corpus weight
What this shows « sorcellerie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sorcellerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.sɛl(ə).ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sorcellerie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sorcellerie (IPA \sɔʁ.sɛl(ə).ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,364 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sorcellerie, with forms such as "osrcellerie", "socrellerie", and "sorccellerie". 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 entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sorcellerie, spelled S-O-R-C-E-L-L-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art des sorciers.
- 2Pratiques des sorciers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sorcellerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On vous dira que le diable seul a pu produire de telles pierres, et l’on vous intentera un procès en sorcellerie.
Comme Katrina Van Tassel, dans Sleepy Hollow, Mercredi possède un don de sorcellerie qu’elle a hérité de sa mère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrcellerie
- socrellerie
- sorccellerie
- sorcelelrie
- sorcelerie
- sorcelleire
- sorcellerei
- sorcellerrie
- sorcellreie
- sorclelerie
- sorecllerie
- sorrcellerie
- srocellerie
- ssorcellerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sorcellerie - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).