curly
\ˈkɜː.li\
The verdict
“curly” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,407
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouclé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curly · curly · French
curly · rank #44,407 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,407
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Cummings
Nearest frequency peer: Cummings (-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 « curly »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croce
croce
55,597 corpus weight
- cryptograph…
cryptographie
55,596 corpus weight
- Cummings
Cummings
55,595 corpus weight
- curly
curly
55,594 corpus weight
- cutanés
cutanés
55,593 corpus weight
- césure
césure
55,592 corpus weight
What this shows « curly » 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 | curly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈkɜː.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « curly »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around curly (IPA \ˈkɜː.li\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,407 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bouclé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for curly, with forms such as "ccurly", "cruly", and "culry". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "curry", "cul", "cry", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is curly, spelled C-U-R-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Bouclé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurly
- cruly
- culry
- curlly
- curlyy
- currly
- curyl
- ucrly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curly - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).