nucléaire
\ny.kle.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“nucléaire” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,291. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,291
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au noyau atomique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nucleaire · nucléaire · French
nucléaire · rank #2,291 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,291
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neige
Nearest frequency peer: neige (-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 « nucléaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- murs
murs
97,713 corpus weight
- Nantes
Nantes
97,712 corpus weight
- neige
neige
97,711 corpus weight
- nucléaire
nucléaire
97,710 corpus weight
- pluie
pluie
97,708 corpus weight
- pote
pote
97,707 corpus weight
What this shows « nucléaire » 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 | nucléaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ny.kle.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nucléaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around nucléaire (IPA \ny.kle.ɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,291 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for nucléaire, with forms such as "nculéaire", "nnucléaire", and "nuccléaire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nuclear", "nucléaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 nucléaire, spelled N-U-C-L-É-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au noyau atomique.
- 2Relatif à l’énergie fournie par l’atome.
- 3Relatif au noyau d’une cellule.
- 4Qui est central, essentiel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nucléaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’énergie nucléaire.
À son apogée dans les années 1980, l’énergie nucléaire représentait plus de 50 % de la production énergétique de Taïwan. Mais les préoccupations en matière de sécurité ont grandi au cours des quatre dernières décennies à la suite de l’accident de Three Mile Island, du déversement de déchets nucléaires sur des terres autochtones de l’île des Orchidées de T…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nculéaire
- nnucléaire
- nuccléaire
- nuclaéire
- nucleaire
- nuclléaire
- nucléaier
- nucléairre
- nucléarie
- nucléiare
- nucélaire
- nulcéaire
- uncléaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nucléaire - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).