stérilet
\ste.ʁi.lɛ\
The verdict
“stérilet” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,212. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,212
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraceptif intra-utérin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sterilet · stérilet · French
stérilet · rank #48,212 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,212
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH STL
Nearest frequency peer: STL (-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 « stérilet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stimulent
stimulent
51,791 corpus weight
- STL
STL
51,790 corpus weight
- stérilet
stérilet
51,789 corpus weight
- subissaient
subissaient
51,788 corpus weight
- superposent
superposent
51,787 corpus weight
- suzeraineté
suzeraineté
51,786 corpus weight
What this shows « stérilet » 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 | stérilet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ste.ʁi.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stérilet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around stérilet (IPA \ste.ʁi.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,212 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Contraceptif intra-utérin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for stérilet, with forms such as "sstérilet", "sterilet", and "stréilet". 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, "stérilité", "stérile", "stériles", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stérilet, spelled S-T-É-R-I-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Contraceptif intra-utérin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stérilet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, donner une pilule en continu ou poser un stérilet libérant des hormones permet à certaines femmes de ne plus souffrir et de vivre normalement.
C'est en juillet 1964, lors d'une conférence de presse dans le grand amphithéâtre du boulevard des Invalides, prêté pour la circonstance par le laboratoire Roussel, que Pierre Simon présente le « stérilet », selon le néologisme qu'il a lui-même inventé pour désigner l'objet en forme de T mais qu'il préfère décrire par goût de la provocation anticléricale…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstérilet
- sterilet
- stréilet
- sttérilet
- stéirlet
- stérielt
- stérilett
- stérillet
- stérilte
- stérliet
- stérrilet
- sétrilet
- tsérilet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stérilet - 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).