littéral
\li.te.ʁal\
The verdict
“littéral” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,632
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vu avec la lettre et la règle grammaticale, conforme à la lettre grammairienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-litteral · littéral · French
littéral · rank #28,632 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,632
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH liner
Nearest frequency peer: liner (-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 « littéral »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- LeBron
LeBron
71,373 corpus weight
- lev
lev
71,371 corpus weight
- liner
liner
71,370 corpus weight
- littéral
littéral
71,369 corpus weight
- Lorette
Lorette
71,368 corpus weight
- lunaires
lunaires
71,366 corpus weight
What this shows « littéral » 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 | littéral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \li.te.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « littéral »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around littéral (IPA \li.te.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,632 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for littéral, with forms such as "ilttéral", "litteral", and "littréal". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "littoral", "littérale", "littorale", and more, 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 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 littéral, spelled L-I-T-T-É-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Vu avec la lettre et la règle grammaticale, conforme à la lettre grammairienne.
- 2Qui prend un texte mot à mot.
- 3Écrite, en parlant d’une langue.
- 4Exprimées par une lettre, en parlant d’une grandeur.
- 5Qui utilise des caractères alphabétiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how littéral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En vain donc ces dangereux interprètes nous crient que le gros des Pères n’a jamais examiné critiquement, le vrai ou le faux des explications littérales de la Bible ; qu’aussi la Tradition varie fort sur cela ; […].
Je m’inquiète pour mes enfants : ne vais-je pas en faire des sociopathes, au sens littéral, si je les gronde dès lors qu’ils s’approchent d’autres personnes ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilttéral
- litteral
- littréal
- littéarl
- littérall
- littérla
- littérral
- litéral
- litétral
- llittéral
- ltitéral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of littéral - 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 "littéral", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).