spleen
\splin\
The verdict
“spleen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,074. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,074
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte d’hypocondrie qui consiste dans un ennui sans cause et dans le dégoût de la vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spleen · spleen · French
spleen · rank #37,074 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,074
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sourient
Nearest frequency peer: sourient (-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 « spleen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- souffraient
souffraient
62,930 corpus weight
- soupçonnait
soupçonnait
62,929 corpus weight
- sourient
sourient
62,928 corpus weight
- spleen
spleen
62,927 corpus weight
- spontanés
spontanés
62,926 corpus weight
- stokes
stokes
62,925 corpus weight
What this shows « spleen » 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 | spleen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \splin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spleen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around spleen (IPA \splin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,074 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sorte d’hypocondrie qui consiste dans un ennui sans cause et dans le dégoût de la vie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for spleen, with forms such as "psleen", "slpeen", and "spelen". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "seen", "speed", "salée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is spleen, spelled S-P-L-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1Sorte d’hypocondrie qui consiste dans un ennui sans cause et dans le dégoût de la vie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spleen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans mes jours de spleen, je marche tranquillement au beau milieu du chemin le plus uni, et je ne plaisante pas avec les abîmes. Je sais trop bien que dans ces jours-là, le sifflement importun d’un insecte à mon oreille ou le chatouillement insolent d’un cheveu sur ma joue suffirait pour me transporter de colère et de désespoir, et pour me faire sauter au…
Quand il y a deux caméléons à la même corde, le spectacle devient d’une bouffonnerie transcendantale. Le spleen en personne crèverait de rire à contempler les contorsions, les regards effroyables des deux vilaines bêtes, lorsqu’elles se rencontrent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psleen
- slpeen
- spelen
- spleenn
- splen
- splene
- splleen
- sppleen
- sspleen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spleen - 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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Same letter count
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