cumulus
\ky.my.lys\
The verdict
“cumulus” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,266. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,266
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amas de nuages dont la partie supérieure est arrondie et présente des reflets blancs, tandis que la partie inférieure est sombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cumulus · cumulus · French
cumulus · rank #42,266 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,266
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cueille
Nearest frequency peer: cueille (-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 « cumulus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- CSV
CSV
57,738 corpus weight
- Cte
Cte
57,737 corpus weight
- cueille
cueille
57,736 corpus weight
- cumulus
cumulus
57,735 corpus weight
- cybernétique
cybernétique
57,734 corpus weight
- DAE
DAE
57,732 corpus weight
What this shows « cumulus » 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 | cumulus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.my.lys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cumulus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cumulus (IPA \ky.my.lys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,266 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cumulus, with forms such as "ccumulus", "cmuulus", and "cumluus". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cumul", "cumule", "cumuler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is cumulus, spelled C-U-M-U-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Amas de nuages dont la partie supérieure est arrondie et présente des reflets blancs, tandis que la partie inférieure est sombre.
- 2Nom déposé du premier chauffe-eau électrique à accumulation inventé en 1915 par le suisse Frédéric Sauter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cumulus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ciel est huit dixième couvert par cumulus et cumulo-nimbus, et un vent de S.-S.-E. à S.-E. de 60 kilomètres-heure augmente notre vitesse jusqu’à 240 kilomètres-heure.
Enfin les niveaux de base des cumulus d’été sont beaucoup plus élevés que dans les plaines.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccumulus
- cmuulus
- cumluus
- cummulus
- cumullus
- cumulsu
- cumuluss
- cumuuls
- cuumlus
- ucmulus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cumulus - 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
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