syndrome

\sɛ̃.dʁom\

/\sɛ̃.dʁom\/ noun

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The verdict

“syndrome” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,899
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de symptômes caractéristiques d’une maladie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-syndrome · syndrome · French

syndrome · rank #6,899 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,899
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH supposé

Nearest frequency peer: supposé (-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 « syndrome »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « syndrome » 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).

syndrome vs syndromes
89% similar

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

Key facts for syndrome
PropertyValue
Headwordsyndrome
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛ̃.dʁom\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,899
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « syndrome »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.syndromese 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 « supposé » (#6,898), « séduire » (#6,900), « sun » (#6,897). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « syndrome » est au #6,899. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around syndrome (IPA \sɛ̃.dʁom\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,899 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for syndrome, with forms such as "snydrome", "ssyndrome", and "sydnrome". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "syndromes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is syndrome, spelled S-Y-N-D-R-O-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble de symptômes caractéristiques d’une maladie.
  2. 2
    Maladie, souvent d’origine chromosomique, présentant ces symptômes.
  3. 3
    Ensemble de comportements particuliers à un groupe humain ayant subi une même situation traumatisante.
  4. 4
    Ensemble de comportements anormaux d'une personne ou d'un groupe humain.
  5. 5
    Vecteur produit d'un mot et d'une matrice de contrôle, permettant de corriger ce mot dans un code linéaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il souffre d’un étrange syndrome.
  2. La psychiatrie à la fin du XXᵉ siècle restait la seule spécialité médicale à comporter autant de syndromes, de maladies sans causes apparentes, mais cela ne dérangeait pas vraiment une bonne partie des psychiatres et ne les empêchait pas de balayer d’un revers de main l’hypothèse que des violences pourraient en être à l’origine.

This word in other languages

syndrome(English)síndrome(Español)Syndrom(Deutsch)síndrome(Português)

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.

snydrome2ssyndrome1sydnrome2synddrome1syndorme2syndrmoe2syndroem2syndromme1
Edit distance from "syndrome"

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 "syndrome"?
"syndrome" is spelled S-Y-N-D-R-O-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛ̃.dʁom\.
What does "syndrome" mean?
As a noun, "syndrome" means: Ensemble de symptômes caractéristiques d’une maladie.
What words are commonly confused with "syndrome"?
"syndrome" is commonly confused with "syndromes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "syndrome"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "syndrome" is \sɛ̃.dʁom\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "syndrome" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list