Raleigh
\ʁa.li\
The verdict
“Raleigh” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,128. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,128
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raleigh · Raleigh · French
Raleigh · rank #44,128 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,128
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raiponce
Nearest frequency peer: raiponce (-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 « Raleigh »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- raciaux
raciaux
55,877 corpus weight
- radiée
radiée
55,876 corpus weight
- raiponce
raiponce
55,874 corpus weight
- Raleigh
Raleigh
55,873 corpus weight
- rapporta
rapporta
55,872 corpus weight
- rapporterait
rapporterait
55,871 corpus weight
What this shows « Raleigh » 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 | Raleigh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.li\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Raleigh »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Raleigh (IPA \ʁa.li\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,128 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Raleigh, with forms such as "arleigh", "raeligh", and "ralegih". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rallye", "rallie", "rally", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Raleigh, spelled R-A-L-E-I-G-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’origine anglaise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arleigh
- raeligh
- ralegih
- raleiggh
- raleighh
- raleihg
- raliegh
- ralleigh
- rlaeigh
- rraleigh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Raleigh - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).