fœtale
\fe.tal\
The verdict
“fœtale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,548
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fœtal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-f-tale · fœtale · French
fœtale · rank #48,548 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,548
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH férocement
Nearest frequency peer: férocement (-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 « fœtale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fébriles
fébriles
51,456 corpus weight
- félicitons
félicitons
51,455 corpus weight
- férocement
férocement
51,454 corpus weight
- fœtale
fœtale
51,453 corpus weight
- gallant
gallant
51,452 corpus weight
- Geronimo
Geronimo
51,451 corpus weight
What this shows « fœtale » 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 | fœtale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fœtale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around fœtale (IPA \fe.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,548 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de fœtal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fœtale, with forms such as "ffœtale", "ftœale", and "fœatle". 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, "fatal", "finale", "fatale", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fœtale, spelled F-Œ-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fœtal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fœtale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un vagin qui s’entrouvre à la taille d’un phallus, des gamètes qui se tirent la bourre afin qu’un seul se déflagelle et s’emmêle à un autre que lui-même, un ovule lesté d’un spermatozoïde qui s’acoquine avec une membrane utérine et un épiderme qui se déplie à la dimension d’une enveloppe fœtale.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffœtale
- ftœale
- fœatle
- fœtael
- fœtalle
- fœtlae
- fœttale
- œftale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fœtale - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).