missile
\mi.sil\
The verdict
“missile” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,890
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Projectile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-missile · missile · French
missile · rank #8,890 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,890
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH miracles
Nearest frequency peer: miracles (-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 « missile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mesdames
mesdames
91,114 corpus weight
- milles
milles
91,113 corpus weight
- miracles
miracles
91,112 corpus weight
- missile
missile
91,111 corpus weight
- Molière
Molière
91,110 corpus weight
- mousse
mousse
91,109 corpus weight
What this shows « missile » 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 | missile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.sil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « missile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around missile (IPA \mi.sil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,890 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for missile, with forms such as "imssile", "misile", and "misisle". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "mission", "missive", "missiles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 missile, spelled M-I-S-S-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Projectile.
- 2Bombe disposant de son propre système de propulsion, autoguidée ou téléguidée.
- 3Coup bas, critique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how missile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lords les plus orgueilleux, lorsqu'ils montent sur les hustings, pour y recevoir, au milieu des hurlements et des grognements, une mitraille d'irrespectueux missiles.
Nous faisons tout notre possible pour que notre programme de missiles soit proche en nombre du programme de drones
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imssile
- misile
- misisle
- missiel
- missille
- misslie
- mmissile
- msisile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of missile - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "missile", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).