Ebola
\e.bo.la\
The verdict
“Ebola” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,864
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rivière et affluent de la Mongala.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ebola · Ebola · French
Ebola · rank #16,864 · 6 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,864
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ein
Nearest frequency peer: ein (+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 « Ebola »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déprimant
déprimant
83,140 corpus weight
- détachées
détachées
83,139 corpus weight
- Ebola
Ebola
83,137 corpus weight
- ein
ein
83,136 corpus weight
- emballages
emballages
83,135 corpus weight
- emplacements
emplacements
83,134 corpus weight
What this shows « Ebola » 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 | Ebola |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.bo.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ebola »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Ebola (IPA \e.bo.la\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,864 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ebola, with forms such as "beola", "ebbola", and "ebloa". 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, "ela", "ella", "école", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Ebola, spelled E-B-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1rivière et affluent de la Mongala.
- 2Virus, de la famille des Filoviridae (filovirus), de l’ordre des Mononegavirales (mononégavirus), provoquant une fièvre hémorragique virale aigüe affichant un taux de létalité pouvant atteindre 90 %.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ebola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’être humain et les autres primates ont un génome très proche, les gorilles ayant environ 98% de leur ADN en commun. En Afrique, chimpanzés et gorilles ont ainsi été décimés par le virus Ebola.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- beola
- ebbola
- ebloa
- eboal
- ebolla
- eobla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ebola - 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).