lucioles
\ly.sjɔl\
The verdict
“lucioles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,886. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,886
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de luciole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lucioles · lucioles · French
lucioles · rank #39,886 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,886
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lovecraft
Nearest frequency peer: Lovecraft (-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 « lucioles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- localisatio…
localisations
60,118 corpus weight
- lonely
lonely
60,117 corpus weight
- Lovecraft
Lovecraft
60,116 corpus weight
- lucioles
lucioles
60,115 corpus weight
- luzerne
luzerne
60,114 corpus weight
- M4
M4
60,113 corpus weight
What this shows « lucioles » 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 | lucioles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.sjɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lucioles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around lucioles (IPA \ly.sjɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,886 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de luciole.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for lucioles, with forms such as "lcuioles", "llucioles", and "luccioles". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "lucile", "Lucille", "lucides", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 lucioles, spelled L-U-C-I-O-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de luciole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lucioles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un merveilleux électuaire, pareil à une grosse gemme d’améthyste, jette une flamme dont l’obscurité chatoie ; des clartés de topaze y clignent ; les ciselures qui le fleurissent se saphirisent en lueurs vert pâle, opales et diamantines, se métamorphosent en lucioles et en noctiluques qui sont comme les yeux aveugles de la nuit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lcuioles
- llucioles
- luccioles
- luciloes
- lucioels
- lucioless
- luciolles
- luciolse
- lucoiles
- luicoles
- ulcioles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lucioles - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).