négligeable
\ne.ɡli.ʒabl\
The verdict
“négligeable” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,356
- frequency rank, French
- 86,328
- “N” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui peut être négligé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-negligeable · négligeable · French
négligeable · rank #9,356 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,356
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 86,328
- PHOTO-FINISH navigateur
Nearest frequency peer: navigateur (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “négligeable”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- multiplier
multiplier
90,648 corpus weight
- musicales
musicales
90,647 corpus weight
- navigateur
navigateur
90,646 corpus weight
- négligeable
négligeable
90,645 corpus weight
- paient
paient
90,643 corpus weight
- paradoxe
paradoxe
90,642 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “négligeable” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | négligeable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ne.ɡli.ʒabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “négligeable” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around négligeable (IPA \ne.ɡli.ʒabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,356 among 86,328 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for négligeable, with forms such as "negligeable", "ngéligeable", and "nnégligeable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "négligeables", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 négligeable, spelled N-É-G-L-I-G-E-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être négligé.
- 2Se dit des petites quantités qui peuvent être négligées sans inconvénient, dont il est inutile de tenir compte.
- 3Se dit d'un événement A d'un univers probabilisé (Ω,P) tel que P(A)=0.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- negligeable
- ngéligeable
- nnégligeable
- néggligeable
- négilgeable
- néglgieable
- négliegable
- négligaeble
- négligeabble
- négligeabel
- négligeablle
- négligealbe
- négligebale
- négliggeable
- néglligeable
- nélgigeable
- éngligeable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of négligeable - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "négligeable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.