odieux
\ɔ.djø\
The verdict
“odieux” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,103
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui excite la haine, l’aversion, la réprobation, l’indignation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-odieux · odieux · French
odieux · rank #14,103 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,103
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nourrissent
Nearest frequency peer: nourrissent (-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 « odieux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- neutres
neutres
85,901 corpus weight
- nordiques
nordiques
85,900 corpus weight
- nourrissent
nourrissent
85,899 corpus weight
- odieux
odieux
85,898 corpus weight
- Ohio
Ohio
85,897 corpus weight
- opposées
opposées
85,896 corpus weight
What this shows « odieux » 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 | odieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.djø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « odieux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around odieux (IPA \ɔ.djø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,103 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for odieux, with forms such as "doieux", "oddieux", and "odeiux". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "osseux", "odeur", "odieuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is odieux, spelled O-D-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui excite la haine, l’aversion, la réprobation, l’indignation.
- 2Qui a un comportement très désagréable, qui irrite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how odieux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons dit que l’impôt sera odieux, quel qu’en soit le montant, tant qu’il prendra dans la bourse du contribuable, pour ne rien y rapporter.
Harland, qui a fort bien connu Vavilov, condamne sans réserves les théories mitchouriniennes, taxe Lyssenko de charlatan et dénonce les odieuses manœuvres qui ont abouti à la révocation des principales figures de la génétique soviétique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- doieux
- oddieux
- odeiux
- odieuxx
- odiexu
- odiuex
- oideux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of odieux - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).