sottises
\sɔ.tiz\
The verdict
“sottises” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,545. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,545
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sottise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sottises · sottises · French
sottises · rank #29,545 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,545
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sonate
Nearest frequency peer: sonate (-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 « sottises »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- solidarités
solidarités
70,459 corpus weight
- solstice
solstice
70,458 corpus weight
- sonate
sonate
70,457 corpus weight
- sottises
sottises
70,456 corpus weight
- souk
souk
70,455 corpus weight
- soyeux
soyeux
70,454 corpus weight
What this shows « sottises » 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 | sottises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɔ.tiz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sottises »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sottises (IPA \sɔ.tiz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,545 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sottise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sottises, with forms such as "osttises", "sotises", and "sotitses". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "soumises", "sorties", "Sottise", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sottises, spelled S-O-T-T-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sottise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sottises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On aurait achevé tous les embellissements de Paris avec le prix des sottises en carton-pierre, en pâtes dorées, en fausses sculptures consommées depuis quinze ans par les individus du genre Crevel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osttises
- sotises
- sotitses
- sottiess
- sottisess
- sottisse
- sottisses
- sottsies
- ssottises
- stotises
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sottises - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).