ducale
\dy.kal\
The verdict
“ducale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,760
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lettre patente du sénat de Venise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ducale · ducale · French
ducale · rank #38,760 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,760
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dramas
Nearest frequency peer: dramas (-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 « ducale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- drainer
drainer
61,243 corpus weight
- dramas
dramas
61,242 corpus weight
- ducale
ducale
61,241 corpus weight
- débouchant
débouchant
61,240 corpus weight
- décompressi…
décompression
61,239 corpus weight
- déconnectés
déconnectés
61,238 corpus weight
What this shows « ducale » 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 | ducale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ducale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ducale (IPA \dy.kal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,760 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lettre patente du sénat de Venise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ducale, with forms such as "dcuale", "dducale", and "duacle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "duché", "Duval", "Ducati", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ducale, spelled D-U-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Lettre patente du sénat de Venise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcuale
- dducale
- duacle
- ducael
- ducalle
- duccale
- duclae
- udcale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ducale - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ducale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).