fiscal
\fis.kal\
The verdict
“fiscal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,040. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,040
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux taxes et à l’impôt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiscal · fiscal · French
fiscal · rank #5,040 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,040
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH finis
Nearest frequency peer: finis (-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 « fiscal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- extérieure
extérieure
94,964 corpus weight
- facilité
facilité
94,963 corpus weight
- finis
finis
94,962 corpus weight
- fiscal
fiscal
94,961 corpus weight
- foie
foie
94,960 corpus weight
- Gaulle
Gaulle
94,959 corpus weight
What this shows « fiscal » 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 | fiscal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fis.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fiscal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fiscal (IPA \fis.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,040 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 fiscal, with forms such as "ffiscal", "ficsal", and "fisacl". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "focal", "fiscale", "fiscaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fiscal, spelled F-I-S-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux taxes et à l’impôt.
- 2Taxé ; imposé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fiscal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si le percepteur n’était pas arrivé dans la région avant le début de la saison pluvieuse, les villageois étaient sûrs d’échapper pour un an au prélèvement fiscal. Si le percepteur se présentait, ils ignoraient combien ils allaient devoir payer.
Il fit peser les camions aux points de départ, d’arrivée, et en chemin. Cela n’éveilla pas les soupçons : on pèse les camions à des fins fiscales.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffiscal
- ficsal
- fisacl
- fiscall
- fisccal
- fiscla
- fisscal
- fsical
- ifscal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiscal - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).