ondulé
\ɔ̃.dy.le\
The verdict
“ondulé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,832
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont la surface présente ou semble présenter des ondulations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ondule · ondulé · French
ondulé · rank #49,832 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,832
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ondulations
Nearest frequency peer: ondulations (-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 « ondulé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- néonazis
néonazis
50,173 corpus weight
- och
och
50,172 corpus weight
- ondulations
ondulations
50,170 corpus weight
- ondulé
ondulé
50,169 corpus weight
- ondulée
ondulée
50,168 corpus weight
- ordonnateur
ordonnateur
50,167 corpus weight
What this shows « ondulé » 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 | ondulé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ̃.dy.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ondulé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ondulé (IPA \ɔ̃.dy.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,832 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ondulé, with forms such as "nodulé", "odnulé", and "onddulé". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ongle", "ovule", "ordure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ondulé, spelled O-N-D-U-L-É.
Definition
- 1Dont la surface présente ou semble présenter des ondulations.
- 2Branché sur un onduleur, s’emploie surtout pour une prise de courant dans l’expression : prise ondulée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ondulé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le nouveau campement est établi à une douzaine de kilomètres de l'ancien, dans une plaine ondulée et verdoyante.
Qu’y a-t-il vers les cabanes aux toits ondulés, dans le silence gris des brumes ?
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nodulé
- odnulé
- onddulé
- ondlué
- ondule
- ondullé
- onduél
- onndulé
- onudlé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ondulé - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).