sorcière
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,239
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
sorcière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme à qui on attribue le pouvoir surnaturel de lancer des sorts, des sortilèges. Pronounced \sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\. It ranks #9,239 in French word frequency. Often confused with soucier and sorciers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sorcière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sorcière is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɔʁ.sjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,239 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sorcière, with forms such as "osrcière", "socrière", and "sorccière". 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, "soucier", "sorciers", "sorcières", and more, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sorcière, spelled S-O-R-C-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme à qui on attribue le pouvoir surnaturel de lancer des sorts, des sortilèges.
- 2Femme vieille et laide.
- 3Tourbillon de vent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osrcière,socrière,sorccière,sorciere,sorcirèe,sorcièer,sorcièrre,sorcèire,soricère,sorrcière,srocière,ssorcière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sorcière
Misspelling Variants of "sorcière"
Frequency rank: #9,239 in French
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