symptôme
\sɛ̃p.tom\
The verdict
“symptôme” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,274. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,274
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Phénomène caractéristique d’un trouble organique ou fonctionnel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-symptome · symptôme · French
symptôme · rank #13,274 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,274
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH suspens
Nearest frequency peer: suspens (-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 « symptôme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supervision
supervision
86,730 corpus weight
- suspens
suspens
86,728 corpus weight
- symptôme
symptôme
86,727 corpus weight
- tempérament
tempérament
86,726 corpus weight
- tempêtes
tempêtes
86,725 corpus weight
- terminent
terminent
86,724 corpus weight
What this shows « symptôme » 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 | symptôme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃p.tom\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « symptôme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around symptôme (IPA \sɛ̃p.tom\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,274 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for symptôme, with forms such as "smyptôme", "ssymptôme", and "symmptôme". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "symptômes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is symptôme, spelled S-Y-M-P-T-Ô-M-E.
Definition
- 1Phénomène caractéristique d’un trouble organique ou fonctionnel.
- 2Signe révélateur d’une situation matérielle ou d’un état d’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how symptôme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et tout le village bientôt, à des degrés variant selon la constitution et la force de résistance de chacun, fut en proie à des malaises étranges, symptômes inexplicables d’empoisonnement.
Au premier symptôme, l’apparition d’un léger œdème prétibial, il fallait cesser toute absorption de viande de conserve et se nourrir exclusivement de légumes conservés ou secs et de viande fraîche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smyptôme
- ssymptôme
- symmptôme
- sympptôme
- symptmôe
- symptome
- sympttôme
- symptôem
- symptômme
- sympôtme
- symtpôme
- sypmtôme
- syymptôme
- ysmptôme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of symptôme - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).