oculus
\ɔ.ky.lys\
The verdict
“oculus” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,463
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouverture ovale ou ronde pratiquée dans un mur ou une coupole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oculus · oculus · French
oculus · rank #29,463 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,463
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occasionnels
Nearest frequency peer: occasionnels (-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 « oculus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obtenait
obtenait
70,540 corpus weight
- occasionnels
occasionnels
70,539 corpus weight
- oculus
oculus
70,538 corpus weight
- optimum
optimum
70,537 corpus weight
- Orban
Orban
70,536 corpus weight
- orgues
orgues
70,535 corpus weight
What this shows « oculus » 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 | oculus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ky.lys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « oculus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around oculus (IPA \ɔ.ky.lys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,463 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for oculus, with forms such as "coulus", "occulus", and "ocluus". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ovules", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is oculus, spelled O-C-U-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Ouverture ovale ou ronde pratiquée dans un mur ou une coupole.
- 2Ouverture dans une porte permettant de voir de l’autre côté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oculus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Moyen Age, circulaires sont l’oculus (fenêtre ronde) des églises romanes et la rosace des églises gothiques. Nous en voyons à Echillais, Esnandes, Médis, Migron, Saint-Saturnin-de-Séchaus, Talmont et à Breuillet où, prétend la tradition, « les rayons tournent », ce qui n’a rien d’étonnant, écrit Mᵐᵉ Lamontellerie, dans un pays où le soleil « dansait le…
Magnifiées par des vides grandioses, de grandes perspectives sillonnent le bâtiment, tandis que la structure métallique, apparente partout, agit comme un fil d’Ariane révélateur de ces verrières qu’on avait fait disparaître, des oculus qu’on avait occultés…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- coulus
- occulus
- ocluus
- ocullus
- oculsu
- oculuss
- ocuuls
- ouclus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oculus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).