illégale
\i.le.gal\
The verdict
“illégale” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,711
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espionne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illegale · illégale · French
illégale · rank #7,711 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,711
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH hypothèses
Nearest frequency peer: hypothèses (-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 « illégale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hostile
hostile
92,293 corpus weight
- Howard
Howard
92,292 corpus weight
- hypothèses
hypothèses
92,291 corpus weight
- illégale
illégale
92,290 corpus weight
- imposent
imposent
92,289 corpus weight
- incapables
incapables
92,288 corpus weight
What this shows « illégale » 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 | illégale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.le.gal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illégale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around illégale (IPA \i.le.gal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,711 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Espionne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for illégale, with forms such as "illegale", "illgéale", and "illéagle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "inégale", "illégaux", "illégales", and more, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is illégale, spelled I-L-L-É-G-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Espionne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illegale
- illgéale
- illéagle
- illégael
- illégalle
- illéggale
- illéglae
- ilégale
- ilélgale
- lilégale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illégale - 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 "illégale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).