idylle
\i.dil\
The verdict
“idylle” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,753
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit poème à sujet pastoral ou amoureux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-idylle · idylle · French
idylle · rank #26,753 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,753
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH horloges
Nearest frequency peer: horloges (-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 « idylle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hermétique
hermétique
73,251 corpus weight
- historienne
historienne
73,250 corpus weight
- horloges
horloges
73,249 corpus weight
- idylle
idylle
73,248 corpus weight
- impayés
impayés
73,247 corpus weight
- imprenable
imprenable
73,246 corpus weight
What this shows « idylle » 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 | idylle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.dil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « idylle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around idylle (IPA \i.dil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,753 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for idylle, with forms such as "diylle", "iddylle", and "idlyle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "idole", "idéale", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is idylle, spelled I-D-Y-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit poème à sujet pastoral ou amoureux.
- 2Liaison romantique, aventure amoureuse qui ne reste pas toujours chaste.
- 3Amour naïf et tendre vécu affectivement par deux êtres dans la fraîcheur d'un sentiment idéalisé. Relation rêvée dans un climat idéal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how idylle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh ! les chastes églogues ! Oh ! les idylles chantées par les poètes ! Oh ! les paysanneries enrubannées et naïves qui défilent, conduites par la muse de Mme Deshoulières, au son des flageolets et des tambourins !
Dans un souvenir pastoral, les vers d'une triste idylle écrite par La Fontaine flottèrent devant sa mémoire rêveuse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- diylle
- iddylle
- idlyle
- idyle
- idylel
- idyylle
- iydlle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of idylle - 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 "idylle", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).