sympathiser
\sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze\
The verdict
“sympathiser” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,631. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,631
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éprouver de la sympathie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sympathiser · sympathiser · French
sympathiser · rank #47,631 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,631
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surveillante
Nearest frequency peer: surveillante (-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 « sympathiser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Supernova
Supernova
52,373 corpus weight
- surpuissant
surpuissant
52,372 corpus weight
- surveillante
surveillante
52,371 corpus weight
- sympathiser
sympathiser
52,370 corpus weight
- synchrone
synchrone
52,369 corpus weight
- synonymie
synonymie
52,368 corpus weight
What this shows « sympathiser » 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 | sympathiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #47,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sympathiser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around sympathiser (IPA \sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,631 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Éprouver de la sympathie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for sympathiser, with forms such as "smypathiser", "ssympathiser", and "symapthiser". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sympathie", "sympathies", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sympathiser, spelled S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Éprouver de la sympathie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sympathiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai fait un tour au wagon-bar et j’ai sympathisé avec des jeunes, raconte-t-il.
Il sympathisait peu avec Silvère ; la politique l’ennuyait, et il trouvait que son cousin était « toqué ».
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smypathiser
- ssympathiser
- symapthiser
- symmpathiser
- sympahtiser
- sympathhiser
- sympathiesr
- sympathiserr
- sympathisre
- sympathisser
- sympathsier
- sympatihser
- sympatthiser
- symppathiser
- symptahiser
- sypmathiser
- syympathiser
- ysmpathiser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sympathiser - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).