axel
\ak.sɛl\
The verdict
“axel” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,723
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Saut partant sur une carre extérieure avant et se terminant sur une carre extérieure arrière après une rotation d’un tour et demi dans l’espace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-axel · axel · French
axel · rank #12,723 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,723
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH attendus
Nearest frequency peer: attendus (-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 « axel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aspirations
aspirations
87,282 corpus weight
- assureur
assureur
87,281 corpus weight
- attendus
attendus
87,279 corpus weight
- axel
axel
87,278 corpus weight
- Beauvais
Beauvais
87,276 corpus weight
- berry
berry
87,275 corpus weight
What this shows « axel » 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 | axel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « axel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around axel (IPA \ak.sɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,723 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Saut partant sur une carre extérieure avant et se terminant sur une carre extérieure arrière après une rotation d’un tour et demi dans l’espace.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for axel, with forms such as "aexl", "axell", and "axle". 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, "aye", "ayez", "axés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is axel, spelled A-X-E-L.
Definition
- 1Saut partant sur une carre extérieure avant et se terminant sur une carre extérieure arrière après une rotation d’un tour et demi dans l’espace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how axel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lutz est le deuxième saut le plus difficile après l’axel.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aexl
- axell
- axle
- axxel
- xael
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of axel - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).