domicile
\dɔ.mi.sil\
The verdict
“domicile” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,699
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu choisi par une personne pour son habitation principale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-domicile · domicile · French
domicile · rank #1,699 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,699
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH construire
Nearest frequency peer: construire (-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 « domicile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Claude
Claude
98,305 corpus weight
- collège
collège
98,304 corpus weight
- construire
construire
98,303 corpus weight
- domicile
domicile
98,302 corpus weight
- efforts
efforts
98,301 corpus weight
- employés
employés
98,300 corpus weight
What this shows « domicile » 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 | domicile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.mi.sil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « domicile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around domicile (IPA \dɔ.mi.sil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,699 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for domicile, with forms such as "ddomicile", "dmoicile", and "doimcile". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "domiciles", "domiciliée", "domiciliés", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is domicile, spelled D-O-M-I-C-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu choisi par une personne pour son habitation principale.
- 2Lieu où une personne a son principal établissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how domicile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut entrer de force dans le domicile du citoyen: il faut arrêter administrativement l’homme qui ne peut être arrêté qu’en vertu d’une loi ; il faut violer la liberté de l’opinion et la liberté individuelle; il faut en un mot mettre en péril la constitution même de l’État.
À Sétif (300 km au sud-est d’Alger), deux personnes ont été mortellement asphyxiées dans leur domicile par les fumées provenant d’un incendie qui s’est déclenché à proximité de leur village.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddomicile
- dmoicile
- doimcile
- domciile
- domiccile
- domiciel
- domicille
- domiclie
- domiicle
- dommicile
- odmicile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of domicile - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).