fusiliers
\fy.zi.lje\
The verdict
“fusiliers” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,472. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,472
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fusilier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fusiliers · fusiliers · French
fusiliers · rank #44,472 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,472
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH function
Nearest frequency peer: function (-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 « fusiliers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fructidor
fructidor
55,533 corpus weight
- frustre
frustre
55,532 corpus weight
- fumais
fumais
55,531 corpus weight
- function
function
55,530 corpus weight
- fusiliers
fusiliers
55,529 corpus weight
- gazer
gazer
55,525 corpus weight
What this shows « fusiliers » 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 | fusiliers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.zi.lje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fusiliers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around fusiliers (IPA \fy.zi.lje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,472 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fusilier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fusiliers, with forms such as "ffusiliers", "fsuiliers", and "fuisliers". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "fusillés", "fusiller", "familiers", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is fusiliers, spelled F-U-S-I-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fusilier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffusiliers
- fsuiliers
- fuisliers
- fusiilers
- fusileirs
- fusilierrs
- fusilierss
- fusiliesr
- fusilires
- fusilliers
- fusliiers
- fussiliers
- ufsiliers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fusiliers - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fusiliers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).