fœtus
\fe.tys\
The verdict
“fœtus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,296
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme en voie de développement, chez les animaux vivipares. Il a dépassé le stade d’embryon mais n’est pas encore né.
Corpus desk
Index FR-f-tus · fœtus · French
fœtus · rank #19,296 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,296
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH furieuse
Nearest frequency peer: furieuse (-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 « fœtus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fucking
fucking
80,708 corpus weight
- fument
fument
80,707 corpus weight
- furieuse
furieuse
80,706 corpus weight
- fœtus
fœtus
80,705 corpus weight
- Gainsbourg
Gainsbourg
80,704 corpus weight
- gate
gate
80,703 corpus weight
What this shows « fœtus » 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 | fœtus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.tys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fœtus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fœtus (IPA \fe.tys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,296 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organisme en voie de développement, chez les animaux vivipares. Il a dépassé le stade d’embryon mais n’est pas encore né.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fœtus, with forms such as "ffœtus", "ftœus", and "fœtsu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "fus", "fous", "fûts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fœtus, spelled F-Œ-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Organisme en voie de développement, chez les animaux vivipares. Il a dépassé le stade d’embryon mais n’est pas encore né.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fœtus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La face interne de l'amnios est libre, lisse, semblable à la face interne des séreuses ; c'est elle qui sécrète probablement les eaux de l’amnios, qui remplissent la poche que forme cette membrane et dans lesquelles nage le fœtus.
Ces principes posés, on peut sans s’éloigner de la vérité, considérer la formation du fœtus comme le résultat de deux forces émanées de chaque générateur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffœtus
- ftœus
- fœtsu
- fœttus
- fœtuss
- fœuts
- œftus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fœtus - 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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