lebel
\lə.bɛl\
The verdict
“lebel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,577
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fusil qui équipa les armées françaises dans les deux guerres mondiales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lebel · lebel · French
lebel · rank #31,577 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,577
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lapierre
Nearest frequency peer: Lapierre (-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 « lebel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- kaki
kaki
68,427 corpus weight
- Khalil
Khalil
68,426 corpus weight
- Lapierre
Lapierre
68,425 corpus weight
- lebel
lebel
68,424 corpus weight
- levures
levures
68,423 corpus weight
- liasse
liasse
68,422 corpus weight
What this shows « lebel » 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 | lebel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lə.bɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lebel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lebel (IPA \lə.bɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,577 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fusil qui équipa les armées françaises dans les deux guerres mondiales.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lebel, with forms such as "elbel", "lbeel", and "lebbel". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Lee", "lobe", "leve", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lebel, spelled L-E-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1Fusil qui équipa les armées françaises dans les deux guerres mondiales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lebel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y avait là que deux mousquetons, un lebel et quelques boîtes de munitions.
Flifla est mort, ainsi que jambon-beurre, leur Lebel au sol, mort propre, une seule balle chaque. J'ai compris, y a un snipeur super-bien placé dans une casemate, en haut du sentier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elbel
- lbeel
- lebbel
- lebell
- leble
- leebl
- llebel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lebel - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).