autel
\o.tɛl\
The verdict
“autel” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,030. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,030
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Table ou monument, en bois ou en pierre, à l’usage des sacrifices.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autel · autel · French
autel · rank #7,030 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,030
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Athènes
Nearest frequency peer: Athènes (-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 « autel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Antonio
Antonio
92,974 corpus weight
- arbitrage
arbitrage
92,973 corpus weight
- Athènes
Athènes
92,972 corpus weight
- autel
autel
92,971 corpus weight
- authentique
authentique
92,970 corpus weight
- Ba
Ba
92,968 corpus weight
What this shows « autel » 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 | autel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around autel (IPA \o.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,030 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for autel, with forms such as "atuel", "auetl", and "autell". 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, "auto", "axel", "autre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 autel, spelled A-U-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Table ou monument, en bois ou en pierre, à l’usage des sacrifices.
- 2Table où l’on célèbre la messe, chez les chrétiens.
- 3Droit de jouir des oblations et des revenus casuels d'une église.
- 4Religion, culte religieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On trouvait dans le Latium une fontaine du soleil, auprès de laquelle étaient élevés deux autels, sur lesquels Énée arrivant en Italie sacrifia.
Non seulement il invita ses concitoyens à déposer leurs ressentiments et leurs griefs sur l’autel de la patrie, mais il demanda encore que le bienfait de cette pacification fût étendu aux autres peuples, et que la France, introduisant parmi les nations une nouvelle diplomatie, jetât les fondements d'une alliance universelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuel
- auetl
- autell
- autle
- auttel
- uatel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autel - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).