railway
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
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Chemin de fer
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | railway |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “railway” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around railway, anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,004 among 507,453 “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
- 1Chemin de fer
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.
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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Using “railway”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-I-L-W-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.