oreiller
\ɔ.ʁɛ.je\
The verdict
“oreiller” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,026
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coussin qui sert à soutenir la tête quand on est couché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oreiller · oreiller · French
oreiller · rank #13,026 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,026
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ouragan
Nearest frequency peer: ouragan (+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 « oreiller »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- offrait
offrait
86,978 corpus weight
- Oran
Oran
86,977 corpus weight
- oreiller
oreiller
86,975 corpus weight
- ouragan
ouragan
86,974 corpus weight
- parisiennes
parisiennes
86,973 corpus weight
- patienter
patienter
86,972 corpus weight
What this shows « oreiller » 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 | oreiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « oreiller »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around oreiller (IPA \ɔ.ʁɛ.je\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,026 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Coussin qui sert à soutenir la tête quand on est couché.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for oreiller, with forms such as "oeriller", "oreilelr", and "oreiler". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "oseille", "oreilles", "osciller", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is oreiller, spelled O-R-E-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Coussin qui sert à soutenir la tête quand on est couché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oreiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cher petit oreiller, doux et chaud sous ma tête, Plein de plume choisie, et blanc ! et fait pour moi ! Quand on a peur du vent, des loups, de la tempête, Cher petit oreiller, que je dors bien sur toi !
À tout hasard, la nécessité de bivaquer en plein air, avec mon sac pour oreiller et mon chien pour sentinelle, était un accident qui ne pouvait que m’amuser.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oeriller
- oreilelr
- oreiler
- oreillerr
- oreillre
- oreliler
- orieller
- orreiller
- roeiller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oreiller - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).