normale
\nɔʁ.mal\
The verdict
“normale” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,585
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Droite perpendiculaire au plan tangent en un point d’une courbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-normale · normale · French
normale · rank #2,585 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,585
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nécessité
Nearest frequency peer: nécessité (+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 « normale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jeter
jeter
97,419 corpus weight
- joseph
joseph
97,418 corpus weight
- normale
normale
97,416 corpus weight
- nécessité
nécessité
97,415 corpus weight
- officiellem…
officiellement
97,414 corpus weight
- ouvrages
ouvrages
97,413 corpus weight
What this shows « normale » 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 | normale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔʁ.mal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « normale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around normale (IPA \nɔʁ.mal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,585 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for normale, with forms such as "nnormale", "nomrale", and "noramle". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "norme", "Norman", "normaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is normale, spelled N-O-R-M-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Droite perpendiculaire au plan tangent en un point d’une courbe.
- 2(Avec l’article défini) Situation normale, habituelle ; valeur moyenne.
- 3Abréviation de École normale supérieure : rue d'Ulm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how normale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La normale à une courbe en un point (c; f(c)) est la droite perpendiculaire à la courbe et à la tangente en ce point.
Les corps tombent suivant la normale.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnormale
- nomrale
- noramle
- normael
- normalle
- normlae
- normmale
- norrmale
- nromale
- onrmale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of normale - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).