félicien
\fe.li.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“félicien” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,366
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partisan d’une hérésie dans laquelle on soutenait que Jésus-Christ, comme homme, était le fils de Dieu seulement par adoption et non par nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-felicien · félicien · French
félicien · rank #29,366 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,366
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fusible
Nearest frequency peer: fusible (-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 « félicien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fréquentait
fréquentait
70,638 corpus weight
- frêne
frêne
70,637 corpus weight
- fusible
fusible
70,636 corpus weight
- félicien
félicien
70,635 corpus weight
- gamelle
gamelle
70,634 corpus weight
- garants
garants
70,633 corpus weight
What this shows « félicien » 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 | félicien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fe.li.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « félicien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around félicien (IPA \fe.li.sjɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,366 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partisan d’une hérésie dans laquelle on soutenait que Jésus-Christ, comme homme, était le fils de Dieu seulement par adoption et non par nature.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for félicien, with forms such as "felicien", "ffélicien", and "fléicien". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "félicité", "féliciter", "félicitent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 félicien, spelled F-É-L-I-C-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partisan d’une hérésie dans laquelle on soutenait que Jésus-Christ, comme homme, était le fils de Dieu seulement par adoption et non par nature.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- felicien
- ffélicien
- fléicien
- féilcien
- félciien
- féliccien
- félicein
- félicienn
- félicine
- féliicen
- féllicien
- éflicien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of félicien - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).