control
\kən.ˈtɹoʊl\
The verdict
“control” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,145. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,145
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contrôler (diriger, dominer d’une façon précise).
Corpus desk
Index FR-control · control · French
control · rank #13,145 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,145
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH considérait
Nearest frequency peer: considérait (-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 « control »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Conrad
Conrad
86,859 corpus weight
- consacrées
consacrées
86,858 corpus weight
- considérait
considérait
86,857 corpus weight
- control
control
86,856 corpus weight
- cookie
cookie
86,855 corpus weight
- coquine
coquine
86,854 corpus weight
What this shows « control » 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 | control |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kən.ˈtɹoʊl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « control »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around control (IPA \kən.ˈtɹoʊl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,145 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for control, with forms such as "ccontrol", "cnotrol", and "conntrol". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "controle", "contrôler", "contrôles", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is control, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-L.
Definition
- 1Contrôler (diriger, dominer d’une façon précise).
- 2Contrôler.
- 3Maitriser, maîtriser.
- 4Contrôler (take one's ticket; check one's ticket).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how control appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The controller controls the accounts.
The conductor stopped by to check the tickets of the passengers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontrol
- cnotrol
- conntrol
- conrtol
- contorl
- contrlo
- controll
- contrrol
- conttrol
- cotnrol
- ocntrol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of control - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).