actuel
\ak.tɥɛl\
The verdict
“actuel” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,384. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,384
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est présent, qui a lieu, ou qui a cours, qui est usité dans le moment présent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-actuel · actuel · French
actuel · rank #1,384 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,384
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH vin
Nearest frequency peer: vin (-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 « actuel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- victimes
victimes
98,619 corpus weight
- vin
vin
98,618 corpus weight
- actuel
actuel
98,617 corpus weight
- approche
approche
98,616 corpus weight
- candidat
candidat
98,615 corpus weight
- capitaine
capitaine
98,614 corpus weight
What this shows « actuel » 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 | actuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ak.tɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « actuel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around actuel (IPA \ak.tɥɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,384 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for actuel, with forms such as "acctuel", "acteul", and "acttuel". 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 also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "autel", "actus", "auquel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is actuel, spelled A-C-T-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est présent, qui a lieu, ou qui a cours, qui est usité dans le moment présent.
- 2Qui se traduit par des actes.
- 3Qui existe réellement, concrètement, factuellement ; par opposition à diverses qualifications : potentiel, virtuel, habituel, originel, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how actuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La production mondiale actuelle est d’environ 13,5 millions de tonnes de pois secs et 4,8 millions de tonnes de pois frais.
Les mœurs actuelles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acctuel
- acteul
- acttuel
- actuell
- actule
- acutel
- atcuel
- catuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of actuel - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "actuel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).