sordide
\sɔʁ.did\
The verdict
“sordide” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,706
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sale, repoussant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sordide · sordide · French
sordide · rank #22,706 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,706
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soulèvent
Nearest frequency peer: soulèvent (+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 « sordide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sensuelle
sensuelle
77,299 corpus weight
- sig
sig
77,297 corpus weight
- sordide
sordide
77,295 corpus weight
- soulèvent
soulèvent
77,294 corpus weight
- statuette
statuette
77,293 corpus weight
- structurell…
structurelles
77,292 corpus weight
What this shows « sordide » 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 | sordide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɔʁ.did\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sordide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sordide (IPA \sɔʁ.did\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,706 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sordide, with forms such as "osrdide", "sodride", and "sorddide". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sortie", "surdité", "sordides", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 sordide, spelled S-O-R-D-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est sale, repoussant.
- 2Qui fait preuve d’avarice, qui montre de l’avarice.
- 3Qui est vil, répugnant, en parlant des choses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sordide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là végétait une sordide population d’ouvriers, de petites gens, de prostituées, de voyous.
J’y ai vu ce lépreux, riant grassement et s’épongeant l’œil d’un linge sordide. Il était avant tout vulgaire et se plaisantait soi-même par bassesse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrdide
- sodride
- sorddide
- sorddie
- sordidde
- sordied
- soridde
- sorrdide
- srodide
- ssordide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sordide - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).