syndrome
The verdict
“syndrome” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,899 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,899
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ensemble de symptômes caractéristiques d’une maladie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | syndrome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛ̃.dʁom\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “syndrome” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for syndrome is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛ̃.dʁom\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,899 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for syndrome, with forms such as "snydrome", "ssyndrome", and "sydnrome". 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, "syndromes", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is syndrome, spelled S-Y-N-D-R-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de symptômes caractéristiques d’une maladie.
- 2Maladie, souvent d’origine chromosomique, présentant ces symptômes.
- 3Ensemble de comportements particuliers à un groupe humain ayant subi une même situation traumatisante.
- 4Ensemble de comportements anormaux d'une personne ou d'un groupe humain.
- 5Vecteur produit d'un mot et d'une matrice de contrôle, permettant de corriger ce mot dans un code linéaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: snydrome,ssyndrome,sydnrome,synddrome,syndorme,syndrmoe,syndroem,syndromme,syndrrome,synndrome,synrdome,syyndrome,ysndrome
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of syndrome — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "syndrome"
Frequency rank: #6,899 in French
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Using “syndrome”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-Y-N-D-R-O-M-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛ̃.dʁom\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “syndromes” — see the side-by-side comparison. syndrome vs syndromes
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
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