Richelieu
\ʁi.ʃə.ljø\
The verdict
“Richelieu” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,736
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cardinal qui fut pair de France et principal ministre du roi Louis XIII.
Corpus desk
Index FR-richelieu · Richelieu · French
Richelieu · rank #9,736 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,736
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repère
Nearest frequency peer: repère (-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 « Richelieu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renfort
renfort
90,268 corpus weight
- rentrent
rentrent
90,267 corpus weight
- repère
repère
90,266 corpus weight
- Richelieu
Richelieu
90,265 corpus weight
- réclament
réclament
90,264 corpus weight
- réflexe
réflexe
90,263 corpus weight
What this shows « Richelieu » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Richelieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.ʃə.ljø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Richelieu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Richelieu (IPA \ʁi.ʃə.ljø\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,736 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cardinal qui fut pair de France et principal ministre du roi Louis XIII.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Richelieu, with forms such as "irchelieu", "rcihelieu", and "ricchelieu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Richelieu, spelled R-I-C-H-E-L-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Cardinal qui fut pair de France et principal ministre du roi Louis XIII.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irchelieu
- rcihelieu
- ricchelieu
- ricehlieu
- richeileu
- richeleiu
- richeliue
- richellieu
- richhelieu
- richleieu
- rihcelieu
- rrichelieu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Richelieu - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).