female
\ˈfi.meɪl\
The verdict
“female” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,763
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femelle. Note d’usage : Utilisé pour les animaux et aussi pour les êtres humains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-female · female · French
female · rank #40,763 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,763
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filaire
Nearest frequency peer: filaire (+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 « female »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fatiguées
fatiguées
59,241 corpus weight
- FCC
FCC
59,240 corpus weight
- female
female
59,238 corpus weight
- filaire
filaire
59,237 corpus weight
- fiori
fiori
59,236 corpus weight
- flasque
flasque
59,235 corpus weight
What this shows « female » 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 | female |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈfi.meɪl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « female »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around female (IPA \ˈfi.meɪl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,763 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femelle. Note d’usage : Utilisé pour les animaux et aussi pour les êtres humains.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for female, with forms such as "efmale", "feamle", and "femael". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "femme", "finale", "focale", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is female, spelled F-E-M-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femelle. Note d’usage : Utilisé pour les animaux et aussi pour les êtres humains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how female appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A female doctor.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efmale
- feamle
- femael
- femalle
- femlae
- femmale
- ffemale
- fmeale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of female - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "female", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).