mistral
\mis.tʁal\
The verdict
“mistral” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,188
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vent froid, sec et souvent violent, qui souffle du nord dans la vallée du Rhône et les zones adjacentes du Midi de la France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mistral · mistral · French
mistral · rank #15,188 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,188
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mister
Nearest frequency peer: mister (-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 « mistral »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- migratoire
migratoire
84,816 corpus weight
- minimal
minimal
84,815 corpus weight
- mister
mister
84,814 corpus weight
- mistral
mistral
84,813 corpus weight
- mobilisé
mobilisé
84,812 corpus weight
- monétaires
monétaires
84,811 corpus weight
What this shows « mistral » 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 | mistral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mis.tʁal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mistral »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mistral (IPA \mis.tʁal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,188 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mistral, with forms such as "imstral", "misrtal", and "misstral". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mostra", "minéral", "magistral", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mistral, spelled M-I-S-T-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Vent froid, sec et souvent violent, qui souffle du nord dans la vallée du Rhône et les zones adjacentes du Midi de la France.
- 2Officier qui regroupait les fonctions de percepteur et de juge pour le compte du seigneur local, dans la Savoie et le Dauphiné du Moyen Âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mistral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, si le vent du nord vient à souffler, ces graux sont promptement agrandis, il s'en forme même de nouveaux, et les étangs se déchargent en peu de jours d'une grande partie de leurs eaux ; ils se vident presque entièrement si le mistral (nord-ouest) souffle assez long-temps avec son impétuosité ordinaire.
Depuis trois jours déjà, le mistral soufflait. Mais, le soir, il redoubla, avec une violence nouvelle ; et Martine annonça qu’il durerait au moins trois jours encore, suivant la croyance populaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imstral
- misrtal
- misstral
- mistarl
- mistrall
- mistrla
- mistrral
- misttral
- mitsral
- mmistral
- msitral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mistral - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).