évangile

\e.vɑ̃.ʒil\

/\e.vɑ̃.ʒil\/ noun

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The verdict

“évangile” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,160. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,160
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récit de la vie de Jésus.

Corpus desk

Index FR-evangile · évangile · French

évangile · rank #11,160 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #11,160
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH étang

Nearest frequency peer: étang (-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 « évangile »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « évangile » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

évangile vs évangiles
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for évangile
PropertyValue
Headwordévangile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.vɑ̃.ʒil\
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,160
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « évangile »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).évangilese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « étang » (#11,159), « évoluent » (#11,161), « abonné » (#11,162). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « évangile » est au #11,160. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around évangile (IPA \e.vɑ̃.ʒil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,160 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for évangile, with forms such as "evangile", "véangile", and "éavngile". 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, "évangiles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 évangile, spelled É-V-A-N-G-I-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Récit de la vie de Jésus.
  2. 2
    Un des quatre récits de la vie de Jésus qui ouvrent le Nouveau Testament, respectivement attribués à Matthieu, Marc, Luc et Jean, et reconnus comme canoniques par l'Église et la majorité des confessions chrétiennes.
  3. 3
    (Collectivement) Ensemble des quatre évangiles canoniques.
  4. 4
    Doctrine de Jésus-Christ.
  5. 5
    Livre de piété consacrés à l’usage d’une certaine classe de lecteurs et où la doctrine de l’évangile est mise à leur portée.
  6. 6
    Partie des évangiles que le prêtre lit à la messe ou que le croyant lit.
  7. 7
    Livre, document essentiel et symbolique d’une doctrine quelconque.
  8. 8
    Doctrine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how évangile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y a quatre évangiles canoniques et quelques évangiles apocryphes.
  2. Nous mîmes sur leurs traces Jésus fils de Marie, en tant qu’avérateur de ce qui était en cours dans la Torah, et Nous lui conférâmes l’Évangile, où il y a guidance et lumière.

This word in other languages

gospel(English)evangelio(Español)Evangelium(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evangile
  • véangile
  • éavngile
  • évagnile
  • évanggile
  • évangiel
  • évangille
  • évanglie
  • évanigle
  • évanngile
  • évnagile
  • évvangile

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of évangile - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

evangile1véangile2éavngile2évagnile2évanggile1évangiel2évangille1évanglie2
Edit distance from "évangile"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "évangile"?
"évangile" is spelled É-V-A-N-G-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.vɑ̃.ʒil\.
What does "évangile" mean?
As a noun, "évangile" means: Récit de la vie de Jésus.
What words are commonly confused with "évangile"?
"évangile" is commonly confused with "évangiles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "évangile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "évangile" is \e.vɑ̃.ʒil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "évangile" come from?
"évangile" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "évangile", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

évoluent#11,161écoutant#11,157alphonse#11,166anatomie#11,168

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

anglaises12 variantsapprenant12 variantsauditeurs12 variantsauxiliaire12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list