fascicule
\fa.si.kyl\
The verdict
“fascicule” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,035. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,035
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poignée d’herbes, de plantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fascicule · fascicule · French
fascicule · rank #35,035 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #35,035
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fainéants
Nearest frequency peer: fainéants (-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 « fascicule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- expliciter
expliciter
64,969 corpus weight
- exécuteur
exécuteur
64,968 corpus weight
- fainéants
fainéants
64,967 corpus weight
- fascicule
fascicule
64,966 corpus weight
- Ferrara
Ferrara
64,965 corpus weight
- fez
fez
64,964 corpus weight
What this shows « fascicule » 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 | fascicule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.si.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fascicule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around fascicule (IPA \fa.si.kyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,035 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fascicule, with forms such as "afscicule", "facsicule", and "fasccicule". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "fascicules", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fascicule, spelled F-A-S-C-I-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Poignée d’herbes, de plantes.
- 2Chacune des parties détachées d’un ouvrage publié par livraisons.
- 3Feuillets accompagnant le livret militaire et contenant des instructions en cas de mobilisation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fascicule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet: il ne s’agira en médecine, que d’évaluer le fascicule moyen de telles herbes ou de telles drogues au poids ; c’est—à-dire au ponde , ou à ses nombres, multiplications ou fractions, […].
On lui a fait un café, elle l’a bu en feuilletant nos derniers fascicules d’Alpha. Ça lui a fait du bien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afscicule
- facsicule
- fasccicule
- fascciule
- fasciccule
- fasciclue
- fascicuel
- fasciculle
- fasciucle
- fasiccule
- fasscicule
- ffascicule
- fsacicule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fascicule - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Similar misspelling depth
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