femelles

\fə.mɛl\

/\fə.mɛl\/ adj

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The verdict

“femelles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,325
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de femelle.

Corpus desk

Index FR-femelles · femelles · French

femelles · rank #10,325 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,325
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH faso

Nearest frequency peer: faso (-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 « femelles »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « femelles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

femelles vs feuilles
75% similar
femelles vs ficelles
75% similar
femelles vs formelles
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for femelles
PropertyValue
Headwordfemelles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\fə.mɛl\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,325
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « femelles »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.femellesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « faso » (#10,324), « firent » (#10,326), « fantasme » (#10,323). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « femelles » est au #10,325. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around femelles (IPA \fə.mɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,325 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de femelle.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for femelles, with forms such as "efmelles", "feemlles", and "femelels". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "feuilles", "ficelles", "formelles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 femelles, spelled F-E-M-E-L-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de femelle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how femelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces substances féminisent les embryons mâles et hyper-féminisent les embryons femelles.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • efmelles
  • feemlles
  • femelels
  • femeles
  • femelless
  • femellse
  • femleles
  • femmelles
  • ffemelles
  • fmeelles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of femelles - 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.

efmelles2feemlles2femelels2femeles1femelless1femellse2femleles2femmelles1
Edit distance from "femelles"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "femelles"?
"femelles" is spelled F-E-M-E-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \fə.mɛl\.
What does "femelles" mean?
As an adjective, "femelles" means: Pluriel de femelle.
What words are commonly confused with "femelles"?
"femelles" is commonly confused with "feuilles", "ficelles", "formelles". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "femelles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "femelles" is \fə.mɛl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "femelles" come from?
"femelles" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "femelles", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fantasme#10,323fromages#10,328envoyant#10,319Gauthier#10,332

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

grèves10 variantsmanuels10 variantsmenacer10 variantsbâtard10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list