symptômes
\sɛ̃p.tɔm\
The verdict
“symptômes” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,289
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de symptôme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-symptomes · symptômes · French
symptômes · rank #4,289 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,289
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stupide
Nearest frequency peer: stupide (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “symptômes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- smith
smith
95,715 corpus weight
- sons
sons
95,714 corpus weight
- stupide
stupide
95,713 corpus weight
- symptômes
symptômes
95,712 corpus weight
- tenant
tenant
95,710 corpus weight
- tombée
tombée
95,709 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “symptômes” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | symptômes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃p.tɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “symptômes” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around symptômes (IPA \sɛ̃p.tɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,289 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de symptôme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for symptômes, with forms such as "smyptômes", "ssymptômes", and "symmptômes". 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, "symptôme", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is symptômes, spelled S-Y-M-P-T-Ô-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de symptôme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how symptômes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donner de la drogue ou un verre d’alcool à quelqu’un qui suit une cure de désintoxication, sous prétexte qu’il souffre des symptômes du sevrage, lui procurera sans doute un soulagement momentané apprécié, mais un tel geste ne lui fera aucun bien à long terme.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- smyptômes
- ssymptômes
- symmptômes
- sympptômes
- symptmôes
- symptomes
- sympttômes
- symptôems
- symptômess
- symptômmes
- symptômse
- sympôtmes
- symtpômes
- sypmtômes
- syymptômes
- ysmptômes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of symptômes - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "symptômes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "symptôme". View pair
- 16 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,289 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.