fusillade
\fy.zi.jad\
The verdict
“fusillade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,714. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,714
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Décharge de plusieurs fusils, dans un combat, dans un exercice militaire, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fusillade · fusillade · French
fusillade · rank #8,714 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,714
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fracture
Nearest frequency peer: fracture (-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 « fusillade »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fixation
fixation
91,290 corpus weight
- fouilles
fouilles
91,289 corpus weight
- fracture
fracture
91,288 corpus weight
- fusillade
fusillade
91,287 corpus weight
- gage
gage
91,286 corpus weight
- générer
générer
91,285 corpus weight
What this shows « fusillade » 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 | fusillade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.zi.jad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fusillade »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fusillade (IPA \fy.zi.jad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,714 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Décharge de plusieurs fusils, dans un combat, dans un exercice militaire, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fusillade, with forms such as "ffusillade", "fsuillade", and "fuisllade". 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, "fusillades", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 fusillade, spelled F-U-S-I-L-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Décharge de plusieurs fusils, dans un combat, dans un exercice militaire, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fusillade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’année dernière a été la pire, avec le plus grand nombre de fusillades jamais répertorié à Toronto. En 2019, plus de 760 Torontois ont été atteints par des projectiles d’arme à feu, le triple du nombre de victimes par balle dans la ville en 2014. Le 19 octobre 2020, les statistiques de la police révélaient qu’il y avait eu 409 fusillades depuis le début…
Le renouveau des rapports de force sociaux issu de la révolution industrielle y trouve un développement particulier, du fait de la rupture entre le mouvement ouvrier et la République. Amorcée dès les journées de juin 1848, cette rupture est consommée par la répression sanglante de la Commune de Paris (1871) et confirmée par la fusillade de Fourmies (1891).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffusillade
- fsuillade
- fuisllade
- fusilade
- fusilalde
- fusilladde
- fusillaed
- fusilldae
- fuslilade
- fussillade
- ufsillade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fusillade - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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