ancestrale
\ɑ̃.sɛs.tʁal\
The verdict
“ancestrale” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,257
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de ancestral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ancestrale · ancestrale · French
ancestrale · rank #26,257 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,257
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH amusée
Nearest frequency peer: amusée (-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 « ancestrale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- amidon
amidon
73,747 corpus weight
- amnésie
amnésie
73,746 corpus weight
- amusée
amusée
73,745 corpus weight
- ancestrale
ancestrale
73,744 corpus weight
- ang
ang
73,743 corpus weight
- annexée
annexée
73,742 corpus weight
What this shows « ancestrale » 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 | ancestrale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛs.tʁal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ancestrale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around ancestrale (IPA \ɑ̃.sɛs.tʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,257 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de ancestral.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for ancestrale, with forms such as "acnestrale", "anccestrale", and "ancesrtale". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ancestraux", "ancestrales", "ancestral", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ancestrale, spelled A-N-C-E-S-T-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de ancestral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ancestrale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La méthode ancestrale pratiquée pour l'élaboration des vins pétillants rosés de Cerdon est très proche de la méthode dioise, elle est basée sur la fermentation incomplète des moûts de raisin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnestrale
- anccestrale
- ancesrtale
- ancesstrale
- ancestarle
- ancestrael
- ancestralle
- ancestrlae
- ancestrrale
- ancesttrale
- ancetsrale
- ancsetrale
- anecstrale
- anncestrale
- nacestrale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ancestrale - 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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