Achille
\a.ʃil\
The verdict
“Achille” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,895
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Héros grec apparu dans l’Iliade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achille · Achille · French
Achille · rank #12,895 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,895
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accueillis
Nearest frequency peer: accueillis (-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 « Achille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- abu
abu
87,109 corpus weight
- accueillant
accueillant
87,108 corpus weight
- accueillis
accueillis
87,107 corpus weight
- Achille
Achille
87,106 corpus weight
- actu
actu
87,105 corpus weight
- agirait
agirait
87,104 corpus weight
What this shows « Achille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Achille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Achille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Achille (IPA \a.ʃil\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,895 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Héros grec apparu dans l’Iliade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Achille, with forms such as "acchille", "achhille", and "achile". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aille", "abeille", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Achille, spelled A-C-H-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Héros grec apparu dans l’Iliade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Achille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fille d’Hécube et de Priam, respectivement reine et roi de Troie, Polyxène interroge Achille, le colérique guerrier grec, au sujet du sacrifice de sa propre personne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchille
- achhille
- achile
- achilel
- achlile
- acihlle
- ahcille
- cahille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Achille - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Achille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).