fatal
\fa.tal\
The verdict
“fatal” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,774
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on ne peut éviter, qui doit arriver inévitablement, qui est fixé d’une manière irrévocable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fatal · fatal · French
fatal · rank #11,774 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,774
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH familiaux
Nearest frequency peer: familiaux (-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 « fatal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fabien
Fabien
88,229 corpus weight
- familiaux
familiaux
88,228 corpus weight
- fatal
fatal
88,227 corpus weight
- froides
froides
88,226 corpus weight
- fumeurs
fumeurs
88,225 corpus weight
- fédérales
fédérales
88,224 corpus weight
What this shows « fatal » 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 | fatal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.tal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fatal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fatal (IPA \fa.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,774 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fatal, with forms such as "aftal", "faatl", and "fatall". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "fate", "final", "fatwa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fatal, spelled F-A-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qu’on ne peut éviter, qui doit arriver inévitablement, qui est fixé d’une manière irrévocable.
- 2À qui on ne peut résister.
- 3Marqué par le destin.
- 4Qui entraîne avec soi quelque suite importante, en bien ou en mal.
- 5Qui produit du mal, des malheurs, qui scelle un destin.
- 6Qui tue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fatal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était fatal.
Quand l’heure fatale est arrivée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aftal
- faatl
- fatall
- fatla
- fattal
- ffatal
- ftaal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fatal - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).