ayatollah
\a.ja.tɔ.la\
The verdict
“ayatollah” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,169
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des titres les plus élevés décerné à un membre du clergé chiite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ayatollah · ayatollah · French
ayatollah · rank #39,169 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,169
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avoit
Nearest frequency peer: avoit (-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 « ayatollah »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Avalon
Avalon
60,835 corpus weight
- aven
aven
60,834 corpus weight
- avoit
avoit
60,833 corpus weight
- ayatollah
ayatollah
60,832 corpus weight
- bandés
bandés
60,830 corpus weight
- Barclay
Barclay
60,829 corpus weight
What this shows « ayatollah » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ayatollah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ja.tɔ.la\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ayatollah »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ayatollah (IPA \a.ja.tɔ.la\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,169 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ayatollah, with forms such as "aaytollah", "ayaotllah", and "ayatlolah". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ayatollah, spelled A-Y-A-T-O-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Un des titres les plus élevés décerné à un membre du clergé chiite.
- 2Personne particulièrement intransigeante sur un sujet précis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ayatollah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sentant les États-Unis affabilis par leur différend avec l’ayatollah Khomeiny, elle décide de franchir la ligne rouge et pousser ses pions dans un pays neutre : l’Afgahnistan.
Découvrir que dans l’Iran contemporain, existent plusieurs femmes ayatollah a suscité en moi une très grande curiosité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aaytollah
- ayaotllah
- ayatlolah
- ayatolah
- ayatolalh
- ayatollahh
- ayatollha
- ayattollah
- aytaollah
- ayyatollah
- yaatollah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ayatollah - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ayatollah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).