symétrie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,283
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
symétrie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Correspondance de grandeur, de forme et de position que les parties d’un corps naturel ou artificiel ont entre elles et avec leur tout. Ces parties sont généralement réparties autour d’un axe de sy... Pronounced \si.me.tʁi\. Often confused with symétrique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | symétrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.me.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for symétrie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.me.tʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,283 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for symétrie, with forms such as "smyétrie", "ssymétrie", and "symetrie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "symétrique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is symétrie, spelled S-Y-M-É-T-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Correspondance de grandeur, de forme et de position que les parties d’un corps naturel ou artificiel ont entre elles et avec leur tout. Ces parties sont généralement réparties autour d’un axe de symétrie définissant une symétrie orthogonale. Mais il existe aussi des symétries non axiales : symétrie centrale, ou symétrie oblique par exemple.
- 2Arrangement des choses suivant un certain ordre.
- 3Ordre, disposition, économie d’un discours, d’un ouvrage de l’esprit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: smyétrie,ssymétrie,symetrie,symmétrie,symtérie,symértie,symétire,symétrei,symétrrie,syméttrie,syymétrie,syémtrie,ysmétrie
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for symétrie
Misspelling Variants of "symétrie"
Frequency rank: #17,283 in French
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