fossiles
\fɔ.sil\
The verdict
“fossiles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,247
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fossile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fossiles · fossiles · French
fossiles · rank #8,247 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,247
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forcée
Nearest frequency peer: forcée (-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 « fossiles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- firme
firme
91,757 corpus weight
- fondement
fondement
91,756 corpus weight
- forcée
forcée
91,755 corpus weight
- fossiles
fossiles
91,754 corpus weight
- get
get
91,753 corpus weight
- habitations
habitations
91,752 corpus weight
What this shows « fossiles » 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 | fossiles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.sil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fossiles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fossiles (IPA \fɔ.sil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,247 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fossile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fossiles, with forms such as "ffossiles", "fosiles", and "fosisles". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fosses", "fossile", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fossiles, spelled F-O-S-S-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fossile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fossiles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans tous les cas, la possibilité d’utiliser de l’eau douce est capitale : rivières, canaux, sources, eaux souterraines fossiles non renouvelables, eaux salées qu’il faut désaliner, transport par conduites de pipes-lines, même par transports flottés de la glace des banquises ou des icebergs ; la désalinisation est capitale : on pense que l’osmose électriq…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffossiles
- fosiles
- fosisles
- fossiels
- fossiless
- fossilles
- fossilse
- fosslies
- fsosiles
- ofssiles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fossiles - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).