eclipse
\ɛˈklɪps\
The verdict
“eclipse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,149
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éclipse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eclipse · eclipse · French
eclipse · rank #28,149 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,149
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH déterminisme
Nearest frequency peer: déterminisme (-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 « eclipse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- désolés
désolés
71,855 corpus weight
- déstabilisa…
déstabilisation
71,854 corpus weight
- déterminisme
déterminisme
71,853 corpus weight
- eclipse
eclipse
71,852 corpus weight
- embrouilles
embrouilles
71,850 corpus weight
- embêtant
embêtant
71,849 corpus weight
What this shows « eclipse » 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 | eclipse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛˈklɪps\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « eclipse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around eclipse (IPA \ɛˈklɪps\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,149 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Éclipse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for eclipse, with forms such as "celipse", "ecclipse", and "ecilpse". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "élise", "église", "écluse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is eclipse, spelled E-C-L-I-P-S-E.
Definition
- 1Éclipse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- celipse
- ecclipse
- ecilpse
- eclipes
- eclippse
- eclipsse
- eclispe
- ecllipse
- eclpise
- elcipse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eclipse - 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 "eclipse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).