cervicale
\sɛʁ.vi.kal\
The verdict
“cervicale” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,168. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,168
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertèbre cervicale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cervicale · cervicale · French
cervicale · rank #40,168 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #40,168
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cath
Nearest frequency peer: cath (-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 « cervicale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- carabiniers
carabiniers
59,836 corpus weight
- Castellane
Castellane
59,835 corpus weight
- cath
cath
59,834 corpus weight
- cervicale
cervicale
59,833 corpus weight
- Chagall
Chagall
59,832 corpus weight
- Charlton
Charlton
59,831 corpus weight
What this shows « cervicale » 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 | cervicale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.vi.kal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cervicale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around cervicale (IPA \sɛʁ.vi.kal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,168 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Vertèbre cervicale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for cervicale, with forms such as "ccervicale", "cerivcale", and "cerrvicale". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cervicales", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cervicale, spelled C-E-R-V-I-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Vertèbre cervicale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cervicale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lunettes volent, le type reste un temps de profil comme si le coup lui avait dévissé une cervicale.
Pour Nicolas Pinsault, kinésithérapeute et chercheur à l’université de Grenoble, même si les cas sont « rarissimes », les manipulations des vertèbres et cervicales peuvent bien occasionner des « dissections artérielles ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccervicale
- cerivcale
- cerrvicale
- cervciale
- cerviacle
- cervicael
- cervicalle
- cerviccale
- cerviclae
- cervvicale
- cevricale
- crevicale
- ecrvicale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cervicale - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).