Syracuse
\si.ʁa.kyz\
The verdict
“Syracuse” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,256
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la région de Sicile en Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-syracuse · Syracuse · French
Syracuse · rank #27,256 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,256
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sylla
Nearest frequency peer: Sylla (-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 « Syracuse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- surgissent
surgissent
72,749 corpus weight
- surpopulati…
surpopulation
72,748 corpus weight
- Sylla
Sylla
72,746 corpus weight
- Syracuse
Syracuse
72,745 corpus weight
- sénéchal
sénéchal
72,744 corpus weight
- Tania
Tania
72,742 corpus weight
What this shows « Syracuse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Syracuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \si.ʁa.kyz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Syracuse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Syracuse (IPA \si.ʁa.kyz\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,256 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Syracuse, with forms such as "sryacuse", "ssyracuse", and "syarcuse". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Syracuse, spelled S-Y-R-A-C-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la région de Sicile en Italie.
- 2Province autour de cette ville.
- 3Chef-lieu du comté d’Onondaga, dans l'État de New York, aux États-Unis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Syracuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La neige en mai n’est pas non plus déroutante, ni Archimède faisant de la géométrie pendant le siège de Syracuse.
Privilégiez les fruits disposant d’une IGP : clémentines et pomelos de Corse, citrons de Menton ou de Syracuse, orange de Sicile.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sryacuse
- ssyracuse
- syarcuse
- syraccuse
- syracsue
- syracues
- syracusse
- syraucse
- syrcause
- syrracuse
- syyracuse
- ysracuse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Syracuse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).