viscosité
\vis.ko.zi.te\
The verdict
“viscosité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,514
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est visqueux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viscosite · viscosité · French
viscosité · rank #33,514 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,514
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vg
Nearest frequency peer: vg (-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 « viscosité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vanity
vanity
66,490 corpus weight
- verde
verde
66,489 corpus weight
- vg
vg
66,488 corpus weight
- viscosité
viscosité
66,487 corpus weight
- Wal
Wal
66,486 corpus weight
- Warhol
Warhol
66,485 corpus weight
What this shows « viscosité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | viscosité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vis.ko.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « viscosité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around viscosité (IPA \vis.ko.zi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,514 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for viscosité, with forms such as "ivscosité", "vicsosité", and "visccosité". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is viscosité, spelled V-I-S-C-O-S-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est visqueux.
- 2Résistance à l’écoulement uniforme et sans turbulence se produisant dans la masse d’une matière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how viscosité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La viscosité du sang, qui est diminuée dans la fièvre typhoïde, augmente au contraire dans la pneumonie.
Je ne verrai ni mon départ d’où je m’arrache, ni ce lieu d’arrivée où, sans école, je suis brusquement obligé de résoudre tous les problèmes des feuilles nouvelles, des herbes étrangères, des subtilités des odeurs, de la viscosité et de la sécheresse des chaleurs et des froids, que mes sens ne connaissent pas et qu’il me faudrait connaître pour que j’en j…
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivscosité
- vicsosité
- visccosité
- viscoisté
- viscosite
- viscositté
- viscosiét
- viscossité
- viscostié
- viscsoité
- visocsité
- visscosité
- vsicosité
- vviscosité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of viscosité - 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.
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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