Miguel
\mi.gɛl\
The verdict
“Miguel” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,744
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom espagnol ou portugais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-miguel · Miguel · French
Miguel · rank #10,744 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,744
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mg
Nearest frequency peer: Mg (-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 « Miguel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- meuble
meuble
89,260 corpus weight
- Meuse
Meuse
89,259 corpus weight
- Mg
Mg
89,258 corpus weight
- Miguel
Miguel
89,257 corpus weight
- milliardaire
milliardaire
89,256 corpus weight
- Moore
Moore
89,255 corpus weight
What this shows « Miguel » 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 | Miguel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mi.gɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Miguel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Miguel (IPA \mi.gɛl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,744 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom espagnol ou portugais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Miguel, with forms such as "imguel", "mgiuel", and "migeul". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "mutuel", "Mikael", "muguet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Miguel, spelled M-I-G-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Prénom espagnol ou portugais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Miguel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, le temps de finir mes haricots sautés et de demander à boire pour Georgia et moi, j’ai appris d’elle que le surineur s’appelle Miguel Mercado, et que sa délicieuse partenaire est une Franco-Espagnole du nom de Lina Royale.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imguel
- mgiuel
- migeul
- migguel
- miguell
- migule
- miugel
- mmiguel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Miguel - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Miguel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).