féodal
\fe.ɔ.dal\
The verdict
“féodal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,562. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,562
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à un fief, qui concerne un fief.
Corpus desk
Index FR-feodal · féodal · French
féodal · rank #23,562 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,562
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH félicitation
Nearest frequency peer: félicitation (-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 « féodal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- frôle
frôle
76,442 corpus weight
- fâche
fâche
76,441 corpus weight
- félicitation
félicitation
76,440 corpus weight
- féodal
féodal
76,439 corpus weight
- gal
gal
76,438 corpus weight
- Gascogne
Gascogne
76,437 corpus weight
What this shows « féodal » 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 | féodal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fe.ɔ.dal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « féodal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around féodal (IPA \fe.ɔ.dal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,562 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for féodal, with forms such as "feodal", "fféodal", and "foédal". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "focal", "floral", "féodale", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is féodal, spelled F-É-O-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à un fief, qui concerne un fief.
- 2Qui concerne les usages, les coutumes, la société de la féodalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how féodal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Droit féodal. - En matière féodale.
Nous ne pouvons pas, quant à nous, suivre le Père Schneider dans cette voie ultra-personnalisante et, à notre sens, féodale, des « puissances politiques ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feodal
- fféodal
- foédal
- fédoal
- féoadl
- féodall
- féoddal
- féodla
- éfodal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of féodal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "féodal", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).