syndic

\sɛ̃.dik\

/\sɛ̃.dik\/ noun

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The verdict

“syndic” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,700
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui est élue ou désignée pour gérer les affaires d’une collectivité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-syndic · syndic · French

syndic · rank #13,700 · 10 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,700
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sympathisants

Nearest frequency peer: sympathisants (-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 « syndic »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « syndic » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

syndic vs syndics
86% similar
syndic vs syndicat
75% similar
syndic vs syndical
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for syndic
PropertyValue
Headwordsyndic
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ̃.dik\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,700
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « syndic »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.syndicse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sympathisants » (#13,699), « tailleur » (#13,701), « surprenante » (#13,698). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « syndic » est au #13,700. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around syndic (IPA \sɛ̃.dik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,700 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for syndic, with forms such as "snydic", "ssyndic", and "sydnic". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "syndics", "syndicat", "syndical", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is syndic, spelled S-Y-N-D-I-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui est élue ou désignée pour gérer les affaires d’une collectivité.
  2. 2
    Personne qui est élue ou désignée pour gérer les affaires d’une collectivité.
  3. 3
    Personne qui est élue ou désignée pour gérer les affaires d’une collectivité.
  4. 4
    Personne au sein d'un ordre professionnel responsable de la discipline professionnelle et l'investigation de possibles inconduites de la part de ses membres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how syndic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Voilà du moins ce que me dit le guide que m'envoya le syndic, car à Chamouny les guides sont soumis à un syndicat qui règle leurs tours de service.
  2. Pourtant, à votre place, j’aurais un peu moins parlé des péchés du duc de Savoie, et un peu plus de ses intelligences présumées avec le syndic de la garde, chef de toute les forces de la ville.

Synonyms

maireprésidentbourgmestre

This word in other languages

mayor(English)Bürgermeister(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • snydic
  • ssyndic
  • sydnic
  • syndci
  • synddic
  • syndicc
  • synidc
  • synndic
  • syyndic
  • ysndic

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of syndic - 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.

snydic2ssyndic1sydnic2syndci2synddic1syndicc1synidc2synndic1
Edit distance from "syndic"

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

How do you spell "syndic"?
"syndic" is spelled S-Y-N-D-I-C. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ̃.dik\.
What does "syndic" mean?
As a noun, "syndic" means: Personne qui est élue ou désignée pour gérer les affaires d’une collectivité.
What words are commonly confused with "syndic"?
"syndic" is commonly confused with "syndics", "syndicat", "syndical". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "syndic"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "syndic" is \sɛ̃.dik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "syndic" come from?
"syndic" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "syndic", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list