ADSL
\a.de.ɛs.ɛl\
The verdict
“ADSL” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,909
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technologie de communication haut débit permettant d’utiliser les lignes téléphoniques déjà existantes afin d’accéder à Internet et d’autres services.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adsl · ADSL · French
ADSL · rank #20,909 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,909
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH académies
Nearest frequency peer: académies (-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 « ADSL »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Abitibi
Abitibi
79,095 corpus weight
- abondantes
abondantes
79,094 corpus weight
- académies
académies
79,093 corpus weight
- ADSL
ADSL
79,092 corpus weight
- adéquation
adéquation
79,091 corpus weight
- ae
ae
79,090 corpus weight
What this shows « ADSL » 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 | ADSL |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.de.ɛs.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ADSL »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ADSL (IPA \a.de.ɛs.ɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,909 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Technologie de communication haut débit permettant d’utiliser les lignes téléphoniques déjà existantes afin d’accéder à Internet et d’autres services.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ADSL, with forms such as "addsl", "adls", and "adsll". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "al", "ans", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ADSL, spelled A-D-S-L.
Definition
- 1Technologie de communication haut débit permettant d’utiliser les lignes téléphoniques déjà existantes afin d’accéder à Internet et d’autres services.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ADSL appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Aujourd’hui, renchérit Frédéric Bordage, on consulte de plus en plus de vidéos sur un smartphone ou une tablette. Or se connecter en réseau 4G consomme vingt fois plus d’énergie que de chez soi en ADSL. »
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addsl
- adls
- adsll
- adssl
- asdl
- dasl
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ADSL - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).