autels
\o.tɛl\
The verdict
“autels” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,064. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,064
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de autel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-autels · autels · French
autels · rank #28,064 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,064
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auspices
Nearest frequency peer: auspices (-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 « autels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attendiez
attendiez
71,940 corpus weight
- attestée
attestée
71,939 corpus weight
- auspices
auspices
71,938 corpus weight
- autels
autels
71,937 corpus weight
- aya
aya
71,936 corpus weight
- bagne
bagne
71,935 corpus weight
What this shows « autels » 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 | autels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « autels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around autels (IPA \o.tɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,064 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for autels, with forms such as "atuels", "auetls", and "autells". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "autos", "autres", "auteur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is autels, spelled A-U-T-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de autel.
- 2L’Église catholique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how autels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et partout des portes, des passages couverts, des arcades ciselées, des venelles, des fenêtres qui donnaient d’une rue haute vers une rue plus basse, avec des marches et des recoins où trônaient des autels de pierre noire.
Que manque-t-il encore à cet état des lieux ? Ah ! oui : au mur de la cour d’honneur, la plaque de marbre où étaient inscrits les noms des ÉLÈVES MORTS POUR LA PATRIE ET POUR LES AUTELS est fendue.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atuels
- auetls
- autells
- autelss
- autesl
- autles
- auttels
- uatels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autels - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).