congénitale
\kɔ̃.ʒe.ni.tal\
The verdict
“congénitale” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,438
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de congénital.
Corpus desk
Index FR-congenitale · congénitale · French
congénitale · rank #35,438 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,438
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH congelés
Nearest frequency peer: congelés (-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 « congénitale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concourent
concourent
64,567 corpus weight
- confluence
confluence
64,566 corpus weight
- congelés
congelés
64,564 corpus weight
- congénitale
congénitale
64,563 corpus weight
- contentait
contentait
64,562 corpus weight
- contingents
contingents
64,561 corpus weight
What this shows « congénitale » 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 | congénitale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ʒe.ni.tal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #35,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « congénitale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around congénitale (IPA \kɔ̃.ʒe.ni.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,438 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de congénital.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for congénitale, with forms such as "ccongénitale", "cnogénitale", and "cognénitale". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "congénitales", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is congénitale, spelled C-O-N-G-É-N-I-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de congénital.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how congénitale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« J’ai failli arrêter après les Jeux paralympiques de Tokyo, mais j’ai maintenant les conditions idéales d’entraînement », reconnaît le parathlète de 39 ans, atteint d’une agénésie congénitale des membres supérieurs et inférieurs (il est né sans avant-bras et sans pieds).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccongénitale
- cnogénitale
- cognénitale
- congenitale
- conggénitale
- congnéitale
- congéintale
- congéniatle
- congénitael
- congénitalle
- congénitlae
- congénittale
- congénnitale
- congéntiale
- conngénitale
- conégnitale
- ocngénitale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of congénitale - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).