formuler
\fɔʁ.my.le\
The verdict
“formuler” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,786
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en formule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formuler · formuler · French
formuler · rank #12,786 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,786
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fonctionnel
Nearest frequency peer: fonctionnel (-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 « formuler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fermez
fermez
87,218 corpus weight
- fluides
fluides
87,217 corpus weight
- fonctionnel
fonctionnel
87,216 corpus weight
- formuler
formuler
87,215 corpus weight
- germanique
germanique
87,214 corpus weight
- gouffre
gouffre
87,213 corpus weight
What this shows « formuler » 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 | formuler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.my.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formuler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around formuler (IPA \fɔʁ.my.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,786 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for formuler, with forms such as "fformuler", "fomruler", and "formluer". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "fouler", "formulés", "former", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is formuler, spelled F-O-R-M-U-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en formule.
- 2Exprimer avec précision.
- 3Mettre au point un produit sous forme de mélange dont chaque élément a une fonction sans qu'ils ne réagissent chimiquement entre eux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how formuler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette ordonnance a été mal formulée.
Formuler un acte, un jugement, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformuler
- fomruler
- formluer
- formmuler
- formuelr
- formulerr
- formuller
- formulre
- forrmuler
- forumler
- fromuler
- ofrmuler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formuler - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).