adult
\aˈdʊlt\
The verdict
“adult” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,152
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adulte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adult · adult · French
adult · rank #37,152 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,152
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH administrativ…
Nearest frequency peer: administrativement (-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 « adult »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adjacent
adjacent
62,851 corpus weight
- administrat…
administrativement
62,850 corpus weight
- adult
adult
62,849 corpus weight
- advienne
advienne
62,848 corpus weight
- AEC
AEC
62,847 corpus weight
- affectera
affectera
62,846 corpus weight
What this shows « adult » 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 | adult |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aˈdʊlt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adult »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around adult (IPA \aˈdʊlt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,152 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Adulte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for adult, with forms such as "addult", "adlut", and "adullt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "alt", "aut", "aout", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is adult, spelled A-D-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Adulte.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addult
- adlut
- adullt
- adultt
- adutl
- audlt
- dault
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adult - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).