focaliser
\fɔ.ka.li.ze\
The verdict
“focaliser” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,546
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concentrer des rayons lumineux en un point.
Corpus desk
Index FR-focaliser · focaliser · French
focaliser · rank #19,546 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,546
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Flammarion
Nearest frequency peer: Flammarion (-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 « focaliser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fellation
fellation
80,459 corpus weight
- Flammarion
Flammarion
80,456 corpus weight
- focaliser
focaliser
80,455 corpus weight
- foundation
foundation
80,454 corpus weight
- fresques
fresques
80,453 corpus weight
- funéraires
funéraires
80,452 corpus weight
What this shows « focaliser » 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 | focaliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ.ka.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « focaliser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around focaliser (IPA \fɔ.ka.li.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,546 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for focaliser, with forms such as "fcoaliser", "ffocaliser", and "foacliser". 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, "formaliser", "focalise", "finaliser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is focaliser, spelled F-O-C-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Concentrer des rayons lumineux en un point.
- 2Mettre en focus.
- 3ou Concentrer son attention en un point.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how focaliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On se focalise ensuite sur les écarts de rémunérations entre catégories de salariés […].
Les trois dernières statistiques représentent les publications qui se focalisent sur les propriétés des fillers et de leur influence sur le comportement d'une matrice cimentaire.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fcoaliser
- ffocaliser
- foacliser
- focailser
- focaliesr
- focaliserr
- focalisre
- focalisser
- focalliser
- focalsier
- foccaliser
- foclaiser
- ofcaliser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of focaliser - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).