céréale
\se.ʁe.al\
The verdict
“céréale” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,490. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,490
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie les plantes qui produisent des graines propres à la nourriture de l’homme et de certains animaux domestiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cereale · céréale · French
céréale · rank #34,490 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,490
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH céleri
Nearest frequency peer: céleri (-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 « céréale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- créerait
créerait
65,514 corpus weight
- cubique
cubique
65,513 corpus weight
- céleri
céleri
65,512 corpus weight
- céréale
céréale
65,511 corpus weight
- dad
dad
65,510 corpus weight
- damnation
damnation
65,509 corpus weight
What this shows « céréale » 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 | céréale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.ʁe.al\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « céréale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around céréale (IPA \se.ʁe.al\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,490 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qualifie les plantes qui produisent des graines propres à la nourriture de l’homme et de certains animaux domestiques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for céréale, with forms such as "ccéréale", "cereale", and "crééale". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "créole", "céréales", "cervelle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 céréale, spelled C-É-R-É-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie les plantes qui produisent des graines propres à la nourriture de l’homme et de certains animaux domestiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how céréale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Verse ou le versage des blés, et de beaucoup de plantes céréales, est un accident occasionné, ou par de grands vents, des orages, de fortes pluies, ou par le trop d’embonpoint que prennent les plantes dans les temps chauds et humides.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccéréale
- cereale
- crééale
- céraéle
- cérréale
- céréael
- céréalle
- cérélae
- céérale
- écréale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of céréale - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).