sourcil
\suʁ.sil\
The verdict
“sourcil” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,032
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saillie en forme d’arc, garnie de poils, qui se trouve au-dessus de chaque œil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sourcil · sourcil · French
sourcil · rank #23,032 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,032
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souhaitais
Nearest frequency peer: souhaitais (-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 « sourcil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sionisme
sionisme
76,972 corpus weight
- sonorités
sonorités
76,971 corpus weight
- souhaitais
souhaitais
76,970 corpus weight
- sourcil
sourcil
76,969 corpus weight
- Spielberg
Spielberg
76,968 corpus weight
- spontanéité
spontanéité
76,967 corpus weight
What this shows « sourcil » 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 | sourcil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \suʁ.sil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sourcil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sourcil (IPA \suʁ.sil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,032 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sourcil, with forms such as "osurcil", "sorucil", and "soucril". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "souri", "souris", "sourit", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sourcil, spelled S-O-U-R-C-I-L.
Definition
- 1Saillie en forme d’arc, garnie de poils, qui se trouve au-dessus de chaque œil.
- 2Ces poils eux-mêmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sourcil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle […] se rejeta au fond de la voiture après avoir laissé échapper un léger mouvement de sourcils comme pour approuver son mari.
Sa barbe et ses cheveux dérobaient son visage ; Mais, sous l’épais sourcil, et luisant à travers, Ses yeux, hantés d’un songe unique, et grands ouverts, Contemplaient par delà l’horizon, d’âge en âge, Les jours évanouis et le jeune univers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osurcil
- sorucil
- soucril
- sourccil
- sourcill
- sourcli
- souricl
- sourrcil
- ssourcil
- suorcil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sourcil - 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).