railway

noun

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The verdict

“railway” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,004
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
10
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chemin de fer

Corpus desk

Index FR-railway · railway · French

railway · rank #39,004 · 10 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,004
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH quaternaire

Nearest frequency peer: quaternaire (-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 « railway »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « railway » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for railway
PropertyValue
Headwordrailway
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#39,004
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « railway »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.railwayse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « quaternaire » (#39,003), « rallyes » (#39,005), « quadrant » (#39,002). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « railway » est au #39,004. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around railway, anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,004 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chemin de fer".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for railway, with forms such as "arilway", "railawy", and "raillway". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is railway, spelled R-A-I-L-W-A-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chemin de fer

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how railway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un effroyable accident avait eu lieu, non une rencontre de trains, mais un déraillement et une chute qui rappelaient les plus graves désastres des railways américains.
  2. Quels immenses travaux pour obtenir l’horizontalité indispensable au railway ! C’est un spectacle vraiment touchant que de voir ce pauvre animalcule humain, vermine parasite d’une planète, se donner tant de peine dans le but de secouer L’antique pesanteur à tout objet pendante.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arilway
  • railawy
  • raillway
  • railwayy
  • railwway
  • railwya
  • raiwlay
  • raliway
  • rialway
  • rrailway

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of railway - 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.

arilway2railawy2raillway1railwayy1railwway1railwya2raiwlay2raliway2
Edit distance from "railway"

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 "railway"?
"railway" is spelled R-A-I-L-W-A-Y.
What does "railway" mean?
As a noun, "railway" means: Chemin de fer
What are common misspellings of "railway"?
Common misspellings include "arilway", "railawy", "raillway", "railwayy", "railwway". The correct spelling is "railway".
What language does "railway" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "railway", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

rallyes#39,005reculée#39,008relents#39,010pondent#38,981

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

prémisse10 variantsréagisse10 variantspommettes10 variantsréitéré10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list