sosie
\sɔ.zi\
The verdict
“sosie” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,780
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui a une parfaite ressemblance avec une autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sosie · sosie · French
sosie · rank #24,780 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,780
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonder
Nearest frequency peer: sonder (-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 « sosie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- solennel
solennel
75,224 corpus weight
- sollicitée
sollicitée
75,223 corpus weight
- sonder
sonder
75,222 corpus weight
- sosie
sosie
75,221 corpus weight
- Stein
Stein
75,220 corpus weight
- stratagème
stratagème
75,218 corpus weight
What this shows « sosie » 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 | sosie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.zi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sosie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around sosie (IPA \sɔ.zi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,780 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui a une parfaite ressemblance avec une autre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for sosie, with forms such as "ossie", "soise", and "sosei". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ssi", "SSE", "SSII", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 sosie, spelled S-O-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui a une parfaite ressemblance avec une autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sosie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je suis partie, il discutait avec un thon, mais un thon... Si c'était un homme, elle aurait pu être le sosie de Quasimodo...
Dans un coin, le sosie de Rossi di Palma écoute d’un air pénétré un type tout en lézard.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ossie
- soise
- sosei
- sossie
- ssosie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sosie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sosie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).