symbolisme
\sɛ̃.bɔ.lism\
The verdict
“symbolisme” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,716
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figuration par des symboles, interprétation par les symboles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-symbolisme · symbolisme · French
symbolisme · rank #22,716 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,716
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH syllabes
Nearest frequency peer: syllabes (-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 « symbolisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sushis
sushis
77,287 corpus weight
- syllabes
syllabes
77,286 corpus weight
- symbolisme
symbolisme
77,285 corpus weight
- synchronisa…
synchronisation
77,284 corpus weight
- séjourner
séjourner
77,283 corpus weight
- tabagisme
tabagisme
77,282 corpus weight
What this shows « symbolisme » 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 | symbolisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.bɔ.lism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « symbolisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around symbolisme (IPA \sɛ̃.bɔ.lism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,716 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for symbolisme, with forms such as "smybolisme", "ssymbolisme", and "sybmolisme". 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, "symbolisé", "symbolique", "symboliser", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is symbolisme, spelled S-Y-M-B-O-L-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Figuration par des symboles, interprétation par les symboles.
- 2Mouvement poétique de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, en réaction contre l’école parnassienne et contre l’école naturaliste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how symbolisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son interprétation rationnelle du symbolisme scripturaire s’exerce sans critérium ni règles fixes d’herméneutique pour distinguer ce qui, dans l’Écriture, doit être pris au sens littéral ou au figuré.
Le principe du rite est, en effet, que les hommes doivent se gorger de cette liqueur pour que la terre, par l’effet sympathique de ce symbolisme, soit imbibée de pluie bienfaisante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smybolisme
- ssymbolisme
- sybmolisme
- symbbolisme
- symbloisme
- symboilsme
- symbolimse
- symbolisem
- symbolismme
- symbolissme
- symbollisme
- symbolsime
- symmbolisme
- symoblisme
- syymbolisme
- ysmbolisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of symbolisme - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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