éolienne
\e.ɔ.ljɛn\
The verdict
“éolienne” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,048. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,048
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Turbine mue par le vent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eolienne · éolienne · French
éolienne · rank #17,048 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,048
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élaborée
Nearest frequency peer: élaborée (-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 « éolienne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ébullition
ébullition
82,956 corpus weight
- éducative
éducative
82,955 corpus weight
- élaborée
élaborée
82,954 corpus weight
- éolienne
éolienne
82,953 corpus weight
- étendant
étendant
82,951 corpus weight
- étonnes
étonnes
82,950 corpus weight
What this shows « éolienne » 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 | éolienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɔ.ljɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éolienne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around éolienne (IPA \e.ɔ.ljɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,048 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for éolienne, with forms such as "eolienne", "oélienne", and "éloienne". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Étienne", "éoliens", "Estienne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 éolienne, spelled É-O-L-I-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Turbine mue par le vent.
- 2Étoffe légère, très fine et très souple ayant l'aspect de la popeline, dont la trame est en laine et la chaîne en soie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éolienne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, avant d’envisager l’implémentation d’une éolienne, on veillera à vérifier les deux paramètres suivants : la vitesse du vent et sa linéarité.
Si la loi sur la transition énergétique, votée dans l'inconscience durant la législature précédente, est appliquée, près de la moitié des habitations de la France rurale se trouveront à moins de 3 kilomètres d'une grande éolienne. Au mont des Quatre Faux (Ardennes), le préfet a autorisé 63 engins de 200 mètres de haut, pale comprise - soit deux fois et de…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eolienne
- oélienne
- éloienne
- éoilenne
- éoleinne
- éoliene
- éolienen
- éolinene
- éollienne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éolienne - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).