lunel
\ly.nɛl\
The verdict
“lunel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,878
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meuble représentant une figure formée de quatre croissants appointés, comme s’ils formaient une rose quartefeuille. À rapprocher de croissant et lune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lunel · lunel · French
lunel · rank #41,878 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,878
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lutteurs
Nearest frequency peer: lutteurs (+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 « lunel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loris
loris
58,127 corpus weight
- lovers
lovers
58,125 corpus weight
- lunel
lunel
58,123 corpus weight
- lutteurs
lutteurs
58,122 corpus weight
- luxueuses
luxueuses
58,121 corpus weight
- lâchant
lâchant
58,120 corpus weight
What this shows « lunel » 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 | lunel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ly.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lunel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lunel (IPA \ly.nɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,878 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Meuble représentant une figure formée de quatre croissants appointés, comme s’ils formaient une rose quartefeuille. À rapprocher de croissant et lune.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lunel, with forms such as "llunel", "lnuel", and "luenl". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "luxe", "Lyne", "lung", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lunel, spelled L-U-N-E-L.
Definition
- 1Meuble représentant une figure formée de quatre croissants appointés, comme s’ils formaient une rose quartefeuille. À rapprocher de croissant et lune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lunel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’or à 3 lunels de gueules posés 2 et 1, qui est de la famille Belzunegi de Navarre → voir illustration « armoiries avec 3 lunels »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llunel
- lnuel
- luenl
- lunell
- lunle
- lunnel
- ulnel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lunel - 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).