futsal
\fut.sal\
The verdict
“futsal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,305
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante du football, qui se joue en salle, par équipe de cinq avec un ballon plus petit et plus lourd que le ballon utilisé par les équipes de 11 joueurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-futsal · futsal · French
futsal · rank #38,305 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,305
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fusibles
Nearest frequency peer: fusibles (-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 « futsal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fondeur
fondeur
61,700 corpus weight
- fugitive
fugitive
61,698 corpus weight
- fusibles
fusibles
61,697 corpus weight
- futsal
futsal
61,696 corpus weight
- féodaux
féodaux
61,695 corpus weight
- gabonaise
gabonaise
61,694 corpus weight
What this shows « futsal » 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 | futsal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fut.sal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « futsal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around futsal (IPA \fut.sal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,305 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante du football, qui se joue en salle, par équipe de cinq avec un ballon plus petit et plus lourd que le ballon utilisé par les équipes de 11 joueurs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for futsal, with forms such as "ffutsal", "ftusal", and "fustal". 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, "fûts", "fusil", "fatal", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is futsal, spelled F-U-T-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Variante du football, qui se joue en salle, par équipe de cinq avec un ballon plus petit et plus lourd que le ballon utilisé par les équipes de 11 joueurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how futsal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Association mondiale de futsal a son siège à Asunción, au Paraguay.
Créé en 1930 en Uruguay, le futsal, "football de salon", reconnu par la FFF depuis une dizaine d’années, n’est apparu en France qu’à la fin des années 1970.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffutsal
- ftusal
- fustal
- futasl
- futsall
- futsla
- futssal
- futtsal
- uftsal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of futsal - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "futsal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).