fouettée
\fwɛ.te\
The verdict
“fouettée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,771. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,771
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frappe par le fouet ; fustigation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fouettee · fouettée · French
fouettée · rank #46,771 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,771
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fornication
Nearest frequency peer: fornication (-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 « fouettée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- focal
focal
53,234 corpus weight
- fog
fog
53,233 corpus weight
- fork
fork
53,232 corpus weight
- fornication
fornication
53,231 corpus weight
- fouettée
fouettée
53,230 corpus weight
- foutrement
foutrement
53,228 corpus weight
What this shows « fouettée » 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 | fouettée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fwɛ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fouettée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fouettée (IPA \fwɛ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,771 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fouettée, with forms such as "ffouettée", "foeuttée", and "fouettee". 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, "fouetter", "fouette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fouettée, spelled F-O-U-E-T-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Frappe par le fouet ; fustigation.
- 2Mouvement qui cingle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fouettée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La douleur physique doit suffire ; il est inutile d'y ajouter l'humiliation que ressentirait le patient si la fouettée était administrée devant des spectateurs ! On peut se demander si l'administration du fouet n'amène par sur la partie du corps intéressé des dommages pénibles.
Naturellement, vous connaissez Béru et vous vous doutez bien que Pépère est pas le genre d'homme à subir une fouettée comme le premier marmot-voleur-de-confiture venu. Il esquive d'un bond arrière, et attaque d'un bond avant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffouettée
- foeuttée
- fouettee
- fouetteé
- fouetée
- fouetéte
- foutetée
- fuoettée
- ofuettée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fouettée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).