redoute
\ʁə.dut\
The verdict
“redoute” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,462
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de fortification détachée ; petit fort fermé, construit en terre ou en maçonnerie, et propre à recevoir de l’artillerie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-redoute · redoute · French
redoute · rank #12,462 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,462
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconstitution
Nearest frequency peer: reconstitution (-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 « redoute »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rangée
rangée
87,542 corpus weight
- RC
RC
87,541 corpus weight
- reconstitut…
reconstitution
87,540 corpus weight
- redoute
redoute
87,539 corpus weight
- regrouper
regrouper
87,538 corpus weight
- repli
repli
87,536 corpus weight
What this shows « redoute » 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 | redoute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.dut\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « redoute »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around redoute (IPA \ʁə.dut\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,462 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for redoute, with forms such as "erdoute", "rdeoute", and "reddoute". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "route", "résout", "remote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is redoute, spelled R-E-D-O-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce de fortification détachée ; petit fort fermé, construit en terre ou en maçonnerie, et propre à recevoir de l’artillerie.
- 2Endroit public où l’on s’assemblait pour jouer, pour danser.
- 3Cette fête elle-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how redoute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le château, à la vérité, était séparé de cette barbacane par le fossé, et il n’était pas possible aux assiégeants d’attaquer la poterne du fort, située en face de celle de la redoute.
La veille même du combat de Zouafques, le prince Thomas avait emporté plusieurs redoutes à la faveur desquelles il rétablit aussitôt ses communications avec les assiégés […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erdoute
- rdeoute
- reddoute
- redotue
- redouet
- redoutte
- reduote
- reodute
- rredoute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of redoute - 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.
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).