syllabe
\si.lab\
The verdict
“syllabe” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,704
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voyelle ou réunion de phonèmes qui se prononcent par une seule émission de voix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-syllabe · syllabe · French
syllabe · rank #23,704 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,704
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH supportable
Nearest frequency peer: supportable (-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 « syllabe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- succursales
succursales
76,300 corpus weight
- superflu
superflu
76,299 corpus weight
- supportable
supportable
76,298 corpus weight
- syllabe
syllabe
76,297 corpus weight
- T3
T3
76,296 corpus weight
- tempe
tempe
76,295 corpus weight
What this shows « syllabe » 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 | syllabe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.lab\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « syllabe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around syllabe (IPA \si.lab\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,704 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for syllabe, with forms such as "slylabe", "ssyllabe", and "sylabe". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "syllabes", "Sylla", "sillage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is syllabe, spelled S-Y-L-L-A-B-E.
Definition
- 1Voyelle ou réunion de phonèmes qui se prononcent par une seule émission de voix.
- 2Qui représente des syllabes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how syllabe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Réponds vite, tu auras une pièce d’or par syllabe.
Et sa voix alors prenait une intonation dolente et uniforme, enflant les mots, appuyant indéfiniment sur les syllabes. Cela m’agaçait beaucoup.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- slylabe
- ssyllabe
- sylabe
- sylalbe
- syllabbe
- syllaeb
- syllbae
- syyllabe
- ysllabe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of syllabe - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "syllabe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).