formelle
\fɔʁ.mɛl\
The verdict
“formelle” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,589
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de formel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formelle · formelle · French
formelle · rank #11,589 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,589
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fonctionnalit…
Nearest frequency peer: fonctionnalités (-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 « formelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flipper
flipper
88,415 corpus weight
- Florian
Florian
88,414 corpus weight
- fonctionnal…
fonctionnalités
88,413 corpus weight
- formelle
formelle
88,412 corpus weight
- fouiller
fouiller
88,411 corpus weight
- fourrure
fourrure
88,410 corpus weight
What this shows « formelle » 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 | formelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.mɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around formelle (IPA \fɔʁ.mɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,589 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de formel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for formelle, with forms such as "fformelle", "fomrelle", and "foremlle". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "formule", "formels", "formulée", 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is formelle, spelled F-O-R-M-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de formel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Encore faut-il s’entendre ici : la ruine de la philosophie est consommée lorsque la métaphysique étant déclarée morte et enterrée, la réflexion devient purement formelle ou seulement interrogative, puis totalement divagante.
J’avais l’interdiction formelle de lui adresser la parole pendant qu’il jouait sous prétexte que je le déconcentrais.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformelle
- fomrelle
- foremlle
- formele
- formelel
- formlele
- formmelle
- forrmelle
- fromelle
- ofrmelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formelle - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).