missiles
\mi.sil\
The verdict
“missiles” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,343
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de missile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-missiles · missiles · French
missiles · rank #7,343 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,343
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meurs
Nearest frequency peer: meurs (-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 « missiles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Marocain
Marocain
92,661 corpus weight
- maîtriser
maîtriser
92,660 corpus weight
- meurs
meurs
92,659 corpus weight
- missiles
missiles
92,658 corpus weight
- multitude
multitude
92,657 corpus weight
- métaux
métaux
92,655 corpus weight
What this shows « missiles » 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 | missiles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.sil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « missiles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around missiles (IPA \mi.sil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,343 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de missile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for missiles, with forms such as "imssiles", "misiles", and "misisles". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "missive", "missions", "missile", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is missiles, spelled M-I-S-S-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de missile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how missiles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette aide, d’un montant de 400 millions de dollars, comprend quatre systèmes de lance-roquettes multiple Himars et des munitions, qui ont déjà permis aux forces ukrainiennes d’attaquer des cibles avec des missiles tirés hors de portée de l’artillerie russe, a précisé un haut responsable du Pentagone.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imssiles
- misiles
- misisles
- missiels
- missiless
- missilles
- missilse
- misslies
- mmissiles
- msisiles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of missiles - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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