orteil
\ɔʁ.tɛj\
The verdict
“orteil” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,087
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doigt du pied, chez les humains et les primates.
Corpus desk
Index FR-orteil · orteil · French
orteil · rank #19,087 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,087
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orateur
Nearest frequency peer: orateur (-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 « orteil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obtiendra
obtiendra
80,918 corpus weight
- olympe
olympe
80,916 corpus weight
- orateur
orateur
80,915 corpus weight
- orteil
orteil
80,914 corpus weight
- outaouais
outaouais
80,912 corpus weight
- outillage
outillage
80,911 corpus weight
What this shows « orteil » 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 | orteil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.tɛj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « orteil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around orteil (IPA \ɔʁ.tɛj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,087 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Doigt du pied, chez les humains et les primates.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for orteil, with forms such as "oretil", "orrteil", and "orteill". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "outil", "Ortiz", "Orwell", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is orteil, spelled O-R-T-E-I-L.
Definition
- 1Doigt du pied, chez les humains et les primates.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how orteil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son pied gauche, dont l’orteil rongeait la chaussette dix fois raccommodée, déchiquetant les mailles et creusant sa trouée, le faisait souffrir cruellement.
En vérité, ce n’est pas tant le fumet de Simon qui me soulève le cœur que ce sixième petit doigt qu’il a à chaque main, cet appendice qui tremblote, et aussi à chaque pied, de sorte que ses souliers faits sur mesure paraissent aussi larges que longs : des pattes d’éléphant ! Mais le sixième orteil, je n’ai pas souvent l’occasion de le voir, tandis qu’à ch…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oretil
- orrteil
- orteill
- orteli
- ortiel
- ortteil
- otreil
- roteil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orteil - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).