originale
\ɔ.ʁi.ʒi.nal\
The verdict
“originale” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,480
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme ou fille dont le comportement sort de l’ordinaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-originale · originale · French
originale · rank #3,480 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,480
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orientation
Nearest frequency peer: orientation (-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 « originale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nationales
nationales
96,524 corpus weight
- opposé
opposé
96,523 corpus weight
- orientation
orientation
96,522 corpus weight
- originale
originale
96,521 corpus weight
- origines
origines
96,520 corpus weight
- paquet
paquet
96,519 corpus weight
What this shows « originale » 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 | originale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁi.ʒi.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « originale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around originale (IPA \ɔ.ʁi.ʒi.nal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,480 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for originale, with forms such as "oirginale", "orgiinale", and "origginale". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "origine", "orignal", "originel", 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 originale, spelled O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femme ou fille dont le comportement sort de l’ordinaire.
- 2Édition originale d’un ouvrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how originale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La biographie de Stanley Baron, parue en 1995 le confirme ici : « Sonia était une originale,… débordait d’innovation, d’invention, de fabrication et d’artifices.
Déjà, tout autour de l’illustre demeure, et comme un défi jeté aux boîtes où l’on trouvait des « originales » de Balzac, de Daudet, des grands papiers de Gide, de Barrès, alors pas trop connus, l’affiche-réclame donnait à la Capitale cette physionomie qui n’a guère changé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oirginale
- orgiinale
- origginale
- origianle
- originael
- originalle
- originlae
- originnale
- origniale
- oriignale
- orriginale
- roiginale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of originale - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "originale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).