missel
\mi.sɛl\
The verdict
“missel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,296
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Livre qui contient les prières de la messe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-missel · missel · French
missel · rank #46,296 · 7 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,296
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mitoyen
Nearest frequency peer: mitoyen (+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 « missel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Matilda
Matilda
53,711 corpus weight
- mettiez
mettiez
53,709 corpus weight
- missel
missel
53,705 corpus weight
- mitoyen
mitoyen
53,704 corpus weight
- mitrailleur
mitrailleur
53,703 corpus weight
- moldave
moldave
53,700 corpus weight
What this shows « missel » 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 | missel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « missel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around missel (IPA \mi.sɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,296 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Livre qui contient les prières de la messe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for missel, with forms such as "imssel", "misel", and "misesl". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Missy", "mister", "missile", and more, 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, 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 missel, spelled M-I-S-S-E-L.
Definition
- 1Livre qui contient les prières de la messe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how missel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce prieur est, comme on dit, un prêtre franc et gaillard, qui préfère la coupe et le cor à la cloche et au missel.
Van Helsing ouvrit le missel, commença à lire ; Quincey et moi lui répondîmes de notre mieux.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imssel
- misel
- misesl
- missell
- missle
- mmissel
- msisel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of missel - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).