foetus
\ˈfi.təs\
The verdict
“foetus” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,318. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,318
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de fœtus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foetus · foetus · French
foetus · rank #25,318 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,318
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flip
Nearest frequency peer: flip (-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 « foetus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- figuration
figuration
74,686 corpus weight
- flatter
flatter
74,685 corpus weight
- flip
flip
74,684 corpus weight
- foetus
foetus
74,683 corpus weight
- foirer
foirer
74,682 corpus weight
- fonctionnel…
fonctionnelles
74,681 corpus weight
What this shows « foetus » 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 | foetus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfi.təs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foetus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around foetus (IPA \ˈfi.təs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,318 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de fœtus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for foetus, with forms such as "feotus", "ffoetus", and "foetsu". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "fous", "forts", "foutu", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is foetus, spelled F-O-E-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de fœtus.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feotus
- ffoetus
- foetsu
- foettus
- foetuss
- foeuts
- foteus
- ofetus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foetus - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).