orbital
\ɔʁ.bi.tal\
The verdict
“orbital” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,955
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’orbite d’un corps céleste ou d’un satellite artificiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orbital · orbital · French
orbital · rank #38,955 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,955
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH optez
Nearest frequency peer: optez (-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 « orbital »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- olympien
olympien
61,049 corpus weight
- optent
optent
61,048 corpus weight
- optez
optez
61,047 corpus weight
- orbital
orbital
61,046 corpus weight
- organisatio…
organisationnel
61,045 corpus weight
- oscillation
oscillation
61,044 corpus weight
What this shows « orbital » 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 | orbital |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.bi.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orbital »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around orbital (IPA \ɔʁ.bi.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,955 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for orbital, with forms such as "obrital", "orbbital", and "orbiatl". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "orbite", "orbites", "orbitale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 orbital, spelled O-R-B-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne l’orbite d’un corps céleste ou d’un satellite artificiel.
- 2Orbitaire ; qui concerne l’orbite de l’œil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how orbital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mystère des perturbations de l’orbite de Mercure n'a finalement été élucidé qu'avec la théorie de la relativité générale proposée par Albert Einstein au début du XX^(ème) siècle. Cette théorie prédisait justement des écarts orbitaux qui ont été confirmés par Arthur Eddington en 1919.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- obrital
- orbbital
- orbiatl
- orbitall
- orbitla
- orbittal
- orbtial
- oribtal
- orrbital
- robital
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orbital - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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