superficiel
\sy.pɛʁ.fi.sjɛl\
The verdict
“superficiel” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,693. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,693
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est relatif à la surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-superficiel · superficiel · French
superficiel · rank #19,693 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,693
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sully
Nearest frequency peer: Sully (-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 « superficiel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Starbucks
Starbucks
80,311 corpus weight
- strike
strike
80,310 corpus weight
- Sully
Sully
80,309 corpus weight
- superficiel
superficiel
80,308 corpus weight
- superstar
superstar
80,307 corpus weight
- sénatrice
sénatrice
80,306 corpus weight
What this shows « superficiel » 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 | superficiel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sy.pɛʁ.fi.sjɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #19,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « superficiel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around superficiel (IPA \sy.pɛʁ.fi.sjɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,693 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for superficiel, with forms such as "spuerficiel", "ssuperficiel", and "sueprficiel". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "superficies", "superficiels", "superficielle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 superficiel, spelled S-U-P-E-R-F-I-C-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est relatif à la surface.
- 2Qui n’intéresse que la superficie ; qui est uniquement en surface.
- 3Ce qui s’arrête à l’extérieur, ce qui effleure et n’approfondit pas.
- 4Se dit également des personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how superficiel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cellule isolée (Isolirtzelle) où l’on m'avait mis au secret, est une vaste chambre de 45 à 50 mètres superficiels, très proprement peinte à la chaux, et éclairée par deux fenêtres haut placées que le soleil levant emplissait alors de sa clarté.
S’il n’y a aucun signe plessimétrique ou stéthoscopique indiquant une lésion superficielle du poumon, et si la respiration est simplement affaiblie, on ne peut guère hésiter qu’entre l’existence d’indurations centrales ou disséminées et un état emphysémateux du poumon.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- spuerficiel
- ssuperficiel
- sueprficiel
- supefriciel
- superfciiel
- superfficiel
- superficciel
- superficeil
- superficiell
- superficile
- superfiicel
- superifciel
- superrficiel
- supperficiel
- supreficiel
- usperficiel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of superficiel - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).