filleul
\fi.jœl\
The verdict
“filleul” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,609. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,609
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fils spirituel d’un parrain ou d’une marraine; enfant pour lequel une cérémonie de parrainage a eu lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-filleul · filleul · French
filleul · rank #30,609 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,609
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH ferma
Nearest frequency peer: ferma (-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 « filleul »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- false
false
69,396 corpus weight
- feignant
feignant
69,394 corpus weight
- ferma
ferma
69,393 corpus weight
- filleul
filleul
69,392 corpus weight
- flirte
flirte
69,390 corpus weight
- floral
floral
69,389 corpus weight
What this shows « filleul » 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 | filleul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fi.jœl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « filleul »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around filleul (IPA \fi.jœl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,609 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 filleul, with forms such as "ffilleul", "filelul", and "fileul". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "filleule", "fille", "filles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is filleul, spelled F-I-L-L-E-U-L.
Definition
- 1Fils spirituel d’un parrain ou d’une marraine; enfant pour lequel une cérémonie de parrainage a eu lieu.
- 2Celui qui bénéficie d’une protection spéciale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filleul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet enfant est mon filleul.
Plus jeune d’ailleurs,après des vacances à Monaco chez Yella et Numa, ébloui par la futilité de la relève de la garde d’opérette, j’avais raconté à mes rares amis rémois que j’étais le filleul de Rainier.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffilleul
- filelul
- fileul
- fillelu
- filleull
- filluel
- flileul
- iflleul
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filleul - 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
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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).