civile
\si.vil\
The verdict
“civile” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,731
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne de la population qui n’a pas le statut de combattante et qui n’est ni une prisonnière de guerre, ni une combattante ne prenant plus part aux hostilités (blessée, naufragée, malade, etc).
Corpus desk
Index FR-civile · civile · French
civile · rank #1,731 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,731
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cerveau
Nearest frequency peer: cerveau (-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 « civile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bordeaux
bordeaux
98,273 corpus weight
- bâtiment
bâtiment
98,272 corpus weight
- cerveau
cerveau
98,271 corpus weight
- civile
civile
98,270 corpus weight
- commentaires
commentaires
98,269 corpus weight
- concept
concept
98,268 corpus weight
What this shows « civile » 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 | civile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.vil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « civile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around civile (IPA \si.vil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,731 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne de la population qui n’a pas le statut de combattante et qui n’est ni une prisonnière de guerre, ni une combattante ne prenant plus part aux hostilités (blessée, naufragée, malade, etc).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for civile, with forms such as "ccivile", "ciivle", and "civiel". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "civils", "civiles", "civique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 civile, spelled C-I-V-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Personne de la population qui n’a pas le statut de combattante et qui n’est ni une prisonnière de guerre, ni une combattante ne prenant plus part aux hostilités (blessée, naufragée, malade, etc).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how civile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moins 18 personnes, dont une civile et un policier, ont été tuées lors d'une gigantesque opération policière pour freiner la “politique expansionniste” des gangs du Complexo do Alemao, dans une favela de Rio de Janeiro.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccivile
- ciivle
- civiel
- civille
- civlie
- civvile
- cviile
- icvile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of civile - 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
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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).