funérailles
\fy.ne.ʁɑj\
The verdict
“funérailles” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,547
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des cérémonies de quelque solennité qui se font pour commémorer une personne récemment décédée, notamment autour de son enterrement ou autre disposition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-funerailles · funérailles · French
funérailles · rank #8,547 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,547
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flanc
Nearest frequency peer: flanc (-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 « funérailles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fast
fast
91,457 corpus weight
- flanc
flanc
91,455 corpus weight
- funérailles
funérailles
91,454 corpus weight
- girls
girls
91,453 corpus weight
- Gordon
Gordon
91,452 corpus weight
- guerriers
guerriers
91,451 corpus weight
What this shows « funérailles » 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 | funérailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.ne.ʁɑj\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #8,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « funérailles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around funérailles (IPA \fy.ne.ʁɑj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,547 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble des cérémonies de quelque solennité qui se font pour commémorer une personne récemment décédée, notamment autour de son enterrement ou autre disposition.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for funérailles, with forms such as "ffunérailles", "fnuérailles", and "funerailles". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "funéraires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is funérailles, spelled F-U-N-É-R-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des cérémonies de quelque solennité qui se font pour commémorer une personne récemment décédée, notamment autour de son enterrement ou autre disposition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how funérailles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis curieux de voir le banquet des funérailles d’Athelsthane ; car, si ce banquet n’est pas complet, il sortira de la tombe pour gronder le cuisinier, le maître d’hôtel et l’échanson, et ce serait un spectacle digne d’être vu.
Les funérailles religieuses du maréchal de Mac-Mahon ont eu le caractère d’une imposante et solennelle manifestation. Elles offraient un consolant contraste avec les apothéoses purement laïques dont Paris a été déshonoré, durant ces dernières années.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffunérailles
- fnuérailles
- funerailles
- funnérailles
- funréailles
- funéarilles
- funérailels
- funérailes
- funérailless
- funéraillse
- funéraliles
- funérialles
- funérrailles
- fuénrailles
- ufnérailles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of funérailles - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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