fécule
\fe.kyl\
The verdict
“fécule” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,779
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poudre blanche à très forte teneur en amidon, qui provient de certaines racines ou de certaines graines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fecule · fécule · French
fécule · rank #46,779 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,779
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fuse
Nearest frequency peer: fuse (-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 « fécule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fringe
fringe
53,225 corpus weight
- frises
frises
53,224 corpus weight
- fuse
fuse
53,223 corpus weight
- fécule
fécule
53,222 corpus weight
- GAFA
GAFA
53,221 corpus weight
- gaillards
gaillards
53,220 corpus weight
What this shows « fécule » 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 | fécule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.kyl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fécule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fécule (IPA \fe.kyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,779 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Poudre blanche à très forte teneur en amidon, qui provient de certaines racines ou de certaines graines.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fécule, with forms such as "fcéule", "fecule", and "ffécule". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "foule", "focale", "ficelé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 fécule, spelled F-É-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Poudre blanche à très forte teneur en amidon, qui provient de certaines racines ou de certaines graines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fécule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fécule de pomme de terre, de manioc, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fcéule
- fecule
- ffécule
- féccule
- féclue
- fécuel
- féculle
- féucle
- éfcule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fécule - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).