Rabelais
\ʁab.lɛ\
The verdict
“Rabelais” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,786
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu par François Rabelais, auteur français de la Renaissance, qui a notamment écrit Gargantua et Pantagruel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rabelais · Rabelais · French
Rabelais · rank #25,786 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,786
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quêtes
Nearest frequency peer: quêtes (-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 « Rabelais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pédiatrie
pédiatrie
74,219 corpus weight
- pénibilité
pénibilité
74,217 corpus weight
- quêtes
quêtes
74,216 corpus weight
- Rabelais
Rabelais
74,215 corpus weight
- recensé
recensé
74,212 corpus weight
- rectorat
rectorat
74,211 corpus weight
What this shows « Rabelais » 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 | Rabelais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁab.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Rabelais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Rabelais (IPA \ʁab.lɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,786 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu par François Rabelais, auteur français de la Renaissance, qui a notamment écrit Gargantua et Pantagruel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Rabelais, with forms such as "arbelais", "rabbelais", and "rabealis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "relais", "rappelais", "rabais", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Rabelais, spelled R-A-B-E-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu par François Rabelais, auteur français de la Renaissance, qui a notamment écrit Gargantua et Pantagruel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Rabelais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jadis nos pères se soulageaient ouvertement au coin des rues, le long des murs, ou bien en de vieux tonneaux qui avaient contenu du vin. Nos mères ne se choquaient point. Maintenant vous avez fait des labyrinthes de ces endroits où l’on accomplit ce que Rabelais ne craignait pas de dire en français.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arbelais
- rabbelais
- rabealis
- rabelaiss
- rabelasi
- rabelias
- rabellais
- rableais
- raeblais
- rbaelais
- rrabelais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Rabelais - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Rabelais"?
What does "Rabelais" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "Rabelais"?
How do you pronounce "Rabelais"?
What language does "Rabelais" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Rabelais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).