sympathiques
\sɛ̃.pa.tik\
The verdict
“sympathiques” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,017. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,017
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de sympathique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sympathiques · sympathiques · French
sympathiques · rank #17,017 · 19 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,017
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH SUV
Nearest frequency peer: SUV (-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 « sympathiques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- surcharge
surcharge
82,987 corpus weight
- surveillant
surveillant
82,986 corpus weight
- SUV
SUV
82,985 corpus weight
- sympathiques
sympathiques
82,984 corpus weight
- synagogue
synagogue
82,983 corpus weight
- synode
synode
82,982 corpus weight
What this shows « sympathiques » 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 | sympathiques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.pa.tik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #17,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sympathiques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around sympathiques (IPA \sɛ̃.pa.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,017 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sympathique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for sympathiques, with forms such as "smypathiques", "ssympathiques", and "symapthiques". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sympathies", "sympathique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sympathiques, spelled S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sympathique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sympathiques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première surprise vient du fait que les deux trafiquants d’enfants se révèlent plutôt sympathiques, généreux et drôles, avec, notamment, Song Kang-ho, qui jouait le père dans Parasite, de Bong Joon-ho.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smypathiques
- ssympathiques
- symapthiques
- symmpathiques
- sympahtiques
- sympathhiques
- sympathiqeus
- sympathiqques
- sympathiquess
- sympathiquse
- sympathiuqes
- sympathqiues
- sympatihques
- sympatthiques
- symppathiques
- symptahiques
- sypmathiques
- syympathiques
- ysmpathiques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sympathiques - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).