argileux
\aʁ.ʒi.lø\
The verdict
“argileux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,420
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient de l’argile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-argileux · argileux · French
argileux · rank #34,420 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,420
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arg
Nearest frequency peer: arg (-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 « argileux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arbitral
arbitral
65,584 corpus weight
- ardue
ardue
65,583 corpus weight
- arg
arg
65,582 corpus weight
- argileux
argileux
65,581 corpus weight
- ark
ark
65,580 corpus weight
- Arno
Arno
65,579 corpus weight
What this shows « argileux » 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 | argileux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʒi.lø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « argileux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around argileux (IPA \aʁ.ʒi.lø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,420 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui tient de l’argile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for argileux, with forms such as "agrileux", "arggileux", and "argielux". 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, "argile", "argiles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 argileux, spelled A-R-G-I-L-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui tient de l’argile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how argileux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont des calcaires compactes, sub-lithographiques, dont quelques-uns ont un faux aspect de calcaire grossier marin, et d’autres qui sont celluleux, alternent avec des marnes plus ou moins argileuses.
La grande et la moyenne ont des assolements semblables; ils sont triennaux dans les coteaux argilo-calcaires et les plaines argileuses, et biennaux dans les terres d'alluvion et les boulbènes légères.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrileux
- arggileux
- argielux
- argileuxx
- argilexu
- argilleux
- argiluex
- arglieux
- arigleux
- arrgileux
- ragileux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of argileux - 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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