sympathique
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,816
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sympathique is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif à la sympathie. Pronounced \sɛ̃.pa.tik\. It ranks #5,816 in French word frequency. Often confused with sympathiques and sympathie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sympathique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.pa.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sympathique is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.pa.tik\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,816 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for sympathique, with forms such as "smypathique", "ssympathique", and "symapthique". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sympathiques", "sympathie", 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 sympathique, spelled S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la sympathie.
- 2Qui inspire la sympathie.
- 3Qui agit indirectement.
- 4Qualifie une encre sans couleur qui apparaît lorsqu’on présente le papier à la chaleur ou qu’on y applique quelque agent chimique.
- 5Relatif à la partie du système nerveux autonome responsable du contrôle d’un grand nombre d’activités inconscientes de l’organisme, telles que le rythme cardiaque, la contraction des muscles lisses, etc.
- 6Qualifie une corde qui, sur un instrument, résonne sans avoir été jouée, par sympathie avec la corde qui l’a été.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: smypathique,ssympathique,symapthique,symmpathique,sympahtique,sympathhique,sympathiqeu,sympathiqque,sympathiuqe,sympathqiue,sympatihque,sympatthique,symppathique,symptahique,sypmathique,syympathique,ysmpathique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sympathique
Misspelling Variants of "sympathique"
Frequency rank: #5,816 in French
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