écureuils
\e.ky.ʁœj\
The verdict
“écureuils” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,647. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,647
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de écureuil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecureuils · écureuils · French
écureuils · rank #32,647 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,647
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH écueils
Nearest frequency peer: écueils (-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 « écureuils »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- échappera
échappera
67,357 corpus weight
- éclata
éclata
67,356 corpus weight
- écueils
écueils
67,355 corpus weight
- écureuils
écureuils
67,354 corpus weight
- éducatrice
éducatrice
67,353 corpus weight
- élèvera
élèvera
67,352 corpus weight
What this shows « écureuils » 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 | écureuils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ky.ʁœj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écureuils »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around écureuils (IPA \e.ky.ʁœj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,647 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de écureuil.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for écureuils, with forms such as "céureuils", "ecureuils", and "éccureuils". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "écueils", "écureuil", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is écureuils, spelled É-C-U-R-E-U-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de écureuil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how écureuils appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit apparaître une diversité de dispositifs. Des écoponts, des écoducs, des tunnels, des ponts aériens, des banquettes sous les ouvrages pour les loutres et castors, des échelles de corde pour les écureuils…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céureuils
- ecureuils
- éccureuils
- écrueuils
- écueruils
- écureiuls
- écureuills
- écureuilss
- écureuisl
- écureulis
- écurreuils
- écurueils
- éucreuils
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écureuils - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).