splendide
\splɑ̃.did\
The verdict
“splendide” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,788
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de la splendeur, de la magnificence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-splendide · splendide · French
splendide · rank #10,788 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,788
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH silhouette
Nearest frequency peer: silhouette (-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 « splendide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sieste
sieste
89,216 corpus weight
- signés
signés
89,215 corpus weight
- silhouette
silhouette
89,214 corpus weight
- splendide
splendide
89,213 corpus weight
- state
state
89,212 corpus weight
- sterling
sterling
89,211 corpus weight
What this shows « splendide » 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 | splendide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \splɑ̃.did\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « splendide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around splendide (IPA \splɑ̃.did\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,788 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for splendide, with forms such as "pslendide", "slpendide", and "spelndide". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "splendides", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 splendide, spelled S-P-L-E-N-D-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a de la splendeur, de la magnificence.
- 2Beau par sa lumière, son rayonnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how splendide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De toute manière, Marseille, en tant que ville, a un splendide avenir; de grandes choses s'y préparent, un aspect cosmopolite de la civilisation y est en genèse.
Le P. Jousse — car on ne lui dit pas mon lieutenant mais “mon Père” — me céda son propre cheval, un grand alezan dans le style de Page, tandis que lui montait un cheval de prise allemand et l’on partit s’apéritiver d’une trotte de 8 kilomètres dans des forêts splendides au crépuscule.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pslendide
- slpendide
- spelndide
- splednide
- splenddide
- splenddie
- splendidde
- splendied
- splenidde
- splenndide
- spllendide
- splnedide
- spplendide
- ssplendide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of splendide - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).