formel
\fɔʁ.mɛl\
The verdict
“formel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,042
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui existe de façon déterminée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formel · formel · French
formel · rank #14,042 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,042
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondatrice
Nearest frequency peer: fondatrice (-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 « formel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- feeling
feeling
85,962 corpus weight
- filme
filme
85,961 corpus weight
- fondatrice
fondatrice
85,960 corpus weight
- formel
formel
85,959 corpus weight
- foulard
foulard
85,958 corpus weight
- fournissant
fournissant
85,957 corpus weight
What this shows « formel » 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 | formel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around formel (IPA \fɔʁ.mɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,042 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for formel, with forms such as "fformel", "fomrel", and "foreml". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "forte", "formes", "former", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is formel, spelled F-O-R-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui existe de façon déterminée.
- 2Qui est exprimé avec une clarté et une précision parfaites.
- 3Qui s’attache à la forme.
- 4Sérieux, qui respecte les formes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sommes désormais dans un monde où les réseaux peu structurés d’individus, et plus seulement les organisations formelles, deviennent de puissants créateurs de connaissance et d’action.
J’avais l’interdiction formelle de lui adresser la parole pendant qu’il jouait sous prétexte que je le déconcentrais.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformel
- fomrel
- foreml
- formell
- formle
- formmel
- forrmel
- fromel
- ofrmel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formel - 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).