Sottise
\ˌzɔˈtiːzə\
The verdict
“Sottise” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,625
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sottise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sottise · Sottise · French
Sottise · rank #42,625 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH somaliens
Nearest frequency peer: somaliens (-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 « Sottise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sodome
Sodome
57,379 corpus weight
- somaliens
somaliens
57,377 corpus weight
- Sottise
Sottise
57,376 corpus weight
- soufflent
soufflent
57,375 corpus weight
- souillée
souillée
57,374 corpus weight
- spas
spas
57,373 corpus weight
What this shows « Sottise » 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 | Sottise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌzɔˈtiːzə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Sottise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Sottise (IPA \ˌzɔˈtiːzə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,625 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sottise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sottise, with forms such as "osttise", "sotise", and "sotitse". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "soumise", "sottises", "sotte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Sottise, spelled S-O-T-T-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sottise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osttise
- sotise
- sotitse
- sotties
- sottsie
- ssottise
- stotise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sottise - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Sottise", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).