attelle
\a.tɛl\
The verdict
“attelle” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,831. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,831
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil du potier de terre pour amincir l'ouvrage en le tournant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attelle · attelle · French
attelle · rank #31,831 · 6 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,831
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ath
Nearest frequency peer: ath (-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 « attelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- asperges
asperges
68,174 corpus weight
- assaillant
assaillant
68,173 corpus weight
- ath
ath
68,171 corpus weight
- attelle
attelle
68,170 corpus weight
- avants
avants
68,168 corpus weight
- axiome
axiome
68,167 corpus weight
What this shows « attelle » 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 | attelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around attelle (IPA \a.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,831 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for attelle, with forms such as "atelle", "atetlle", and "attele". 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, "Axelle", "attente", "atteste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 attelle, spelled A-T-T-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Outil du potier de terre pour amincir l'ouvrage en le tournant.
- 2Partie du collier des chevaux de harnais où les traits sont attachés.
- 3Petite pièce de bois, de carton, de fer-blanc, etc., dont on se sert pour maintenir en place les os fracturés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'avais dans ma pharmacie de voyage des attelles et des bandes, ce qui me permit de réduire immédiatement la fracture.
Les attelles qui avaient assuré sa jambe rompue s’étaient depuis longtemps défaites. À l’endroit de la cassure, les arêtes de l’os déchiraient, enflammaient la chair.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atelle
- atetlle
- attele
- attelel
- attlele
- tatelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attelle - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).