stériliser
\ste.ʁi.li.ze\
The verdict
“stériliser” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,164
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frapper de stérilité, rendre stérile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steriliser · stériliser · French
stériliser · rank #43,164 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,164
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stylistiques
Nearest frequency peer: stylistiques (-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 « stériliser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stimulante
stimulante
56,840 corpus weight
- structurale
structurale
56,839 corpus weight
- stylistiques
stylistiques
56,838 corpus weight
- stériliser
stériliser
56,837 corpus weight
- subisse
subisse
56,836 corpus weight
- subjectives
subjectives
56,835 corpus weight
What this shows « stériliser » 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 | stériliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ste.ʁi.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stériliser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around stériliser (IPA \ste.ʁi.li.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,164 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for stériliser, with forms such as "sstériliser", "steriliser", and "stréiliser". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "stérilité", "stabiliser", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is stériliser, spelled S-T-É-R-I-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Frapper de stérilité, rendre stérile.
- 2Détruire par divers procédés d’antisepsie les ferments qui pourraient infecter un instrument, une blessure, une substance.
- 3Devenir stérile, improductif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stériliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stériliser un bistouri. — Stériliser une plaie.
Eau stérilisée. — Lait stérilisé.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstériliser
- steriliser
- stréiliser
- sttériliser
- stéirliser
- stériilser
- stériliesr
- stériliserr
- stérilisre
- stérilisser
- stérilliser
- stérilsier
- stérliiser
- stérriliser
- sétriliser
- tsériliser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stériliser - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
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