éligible
\e.li.ʒibl\
The verdict
“éligible” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,916. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,916
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est dans les conditions requises pour être élu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eligible · éligible · French
éligible · rank #18,916 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,916
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH égout
Nearest frequency peer: égout (-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 « éligible »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- WTA
WTA
81,089 corpus weight
- Yankees
Yankees
81,088 corpus weight
- éclairs
éclairs
81,087 corpus weight
- égout
égout
81,086 corpus weight
- éligible
éligible
81,085 corpus weight
- émergents
émergents
81,083 corpus weight
What this shows « éligible » 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 | éligible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.li.ʒibl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éligible »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around éligible (IPA \e.li.ʒibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,916 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for éligible, with forms such as "eligible", "léigible", and "éilgible". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "éligibles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is éligible, spelled É-L-I-G-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est dans les conditions requises pour être élu.
- 2Qui remplit les conditions pour pouvoir faire l’objet d’un traitement ou bénéficier d’un dispositif particulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éligible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne sont éligibles que les personnes de nationalité allemande et qui sont majeures.
[…] les fonctionnaires seront placés sous le contrôle du peuple, éligibles et révocables à tout moment.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eligible
- léigible
- éilgible
- élgiible
- éligbile
- éliggible
- éligibble
- éligibel
- éligiblle
- éligilbe
- éliigble
- élligible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éligible - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "éligible", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).