synopsis
\si.nɔp.sis\
The verdict
“synopsis” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,517
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résumé d’un film, d’un livre, plus détaillé que l'argument ou accroche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-synopsis · synopsis · French
synopsis · rank #15,517 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,517
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH syntaxe
Nearest frequency peer: syntaxe (+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 « synopsis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- strictes
strictes
84,487 corpus weight
- supposés
supposés
84,486 corpus weight
- synopsis
synopsis
84,484 corpus weight
- syntaxe
syntaxe
84,483 corpus weight
- Tahiti
Tahiti
84,482 corpus weight
- tait
tait
84,481 corpus weight
What this shows « synopsis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | synopsis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.nɔp.sis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « synopsis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around synopsis (IPA \si.nɔp.sis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,517 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for synopsis, with forms such as "snyopsis", "ssynopsis", and "synnopsis". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is synopsis, spelled S-Y-N-O-P-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Résumé d’un film, d’un livre, plus détaillé que l'argument ou accroche.
- 2Ouvrage présentant les grandes lignes d’un sujet donné (sciences, histoire, art, etc.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how synopsis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on a ouvert la TV, Raymond Lemay dessinait, avec sa rapidité spectaculaire ordinaire, les zones de pression du synopsis des prévisions.
Comme nous l'avons vu dans le chapitre 2, un scénariste qui a été engagé pour écrire un épisode de feuilleton populaire, devra très certainement travailler à partir d'une trame ou d'un synopsis détaillé qu'on lui aura remis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- snyopsis
- ssynopsis
- synnopsis
- synopiss
- synoppsis
- synopsiss
- synopssi
- synopssis
- synospis
- synposis
- syonpsis
- syynopsis
- ysnopsis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of synopsis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).