sulfate
\syl.fat\
The verdict
“sulfate” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé ionique associant un ion sulfate SO₄²⁻ et d’une base cationique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sulfate · sulfate · French
sulfate · rank #27,250 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,250
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sucrées
Nearest frequency peer: sucrées (-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 « sulfate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stores
stores
72,754 corpus weight
- stéphanois
stéphanois
72,753 corpus weight
- sucrées
sucrées
72,752 corpus weight
- sulfate
sulfate
72,751 corpus weight
- sunset
sunset
72,750 corpus weight
- surgissent
surgissent
72,749 corpus weight
What this shows « sulfate » 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 | sulfate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \syl.fat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sulfate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sulfate (IPA \syl.fat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,250 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composé ionique associant un ion sulfate SO₄²⁻ et d’une base cationique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sulfate, with forms such as "slufate", "ssulfate", and "suflate". 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, "surface", "slate", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 sulfate, spelled S-U-L-F-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Composé ionique associant un ion sulfate SO₄²⁻ et d’une base cationique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sulfate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'eau de mer, solidifiée par la congélation, se libère du chlorure de sodium, mais conserve les sulfates ; les embruns peuvent la saupoudrer de sels, et un peu de saumure reste emprisonnée.
Un anneau composé de soluble dans la pyridine pour 64 % en poids, de silice (sable, diatomées, foraminifères) pour 18 % et de sulfate de calcium pour 12 %, et datant de 3500 avant J.C. a été découvert à Ur en Irak du Sud.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- slufate
- ssulfate
- suflate
- sulafte
- sulfaet
- sulfatte
- sulffate
- sulftae
- sullfate
- uslfate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sulfate - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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