consuls
\kɔ̃.syl\
The verdict
“consuls” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,260
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de consul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-consuls · consuls · French
consuls · rank #25,260 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,260
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conservera
Nearest frequency peer: conservera (-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 « consuls »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- condamnent
condamnent
74,744 corpus weight
- confiante
confiante
74,743 corpus weight
- conservera
conservera
74,742 corpus weight
- consuls
consuls
74,741 corpus weight
- contractuels
contractuels
74,740 corpus weight
- convergent
convergent
74,739 corpus weight
What this shows « consuls » 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 | consuls |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.syl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « consuls »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around consuls (IPA \kɔ̃.syl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,260 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de consul.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for consuls, with forms such as "cconsuls", "cnosuls", and "connsuls". 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, "consulté", "connus", "consul", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 consuls, spelled C-O-N-S-U-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de consul.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how consuls appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, en 1673, les consuls « religionnaires » de Nîmes, se voient interdits de chaperon et robe au temple qui se trouve ainsi « défleurdelysé », le temple devant être débarrassé des bancs surélevés qui manifestaient la supériorité des magistrats, tous signes auxquels on ne pouvait qu’être particulièrement sensibles, même chez les protestants, dans une so…
Souvent, d’après leurs ordres, les licteurs rossaient les consuls de manière à leur faire longtemps gratter leurs pantalons.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsuls
- cnosuls
- connsuls
- conslus
- conssuls
- consulls
- consulss
- consusl
- conusls
- cosnuls
- ocnsuls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consuls - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).