femelle
\fə.mɛl\
The verdict
“femelle” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,188
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un organisme ou d’un organe produisant des gamètes non motiles riches en réserves nutritives dans le cadre de la reproduction sexuée anisogame.
Corpus desk
Index FR-femelle · femelle · French
femelle · rank #7,188 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,188
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH extraction
Nearest frequency peer: extraction (-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 « femelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exportations
exportations
92,816 corpus weight
- extraction
extraction
92,814 corpus weight
- femelle
femelle
92,813 corpus weight
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gains
92,812 corpus weight
- génocide
génocide
92,811 corpus weight
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gérant
92,810 corpus weight
What this shows « femelle » 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 | femelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fə.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « femelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around femelle (IPA \fə.mɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,188 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for femelle, with forms such as "efmelle", "feemlle", and "femele". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "feuille", "ficelle", "femelles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is femelle, spelled F-E-M-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un organisme ou d’un organe produisant des gamètes non motiles riches en réserves nutritives dans le cadre de la reproduction sexuée anisogame.
- 2Toute pièce d’un assemblage dans laquelle s’emboîte une autre pièce qui est dite mâle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how femelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pistil est l’organe sexuel femelle. — La plante femelle est fécondée par le pollen que lui envoie la plante mâle. — Un palmier mâle, un palmier femelle.
Du chanvre mâle, du chanvre femelle. — Fleurs femelles. — Épi, chaton femelle.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efmelle
- feemlle
- femele
- femelel
- femlele
- femmelle
- ffemelle
- fmeelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of femelle - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).