Romulus
\ʁɔ.my.lys\
The verdict
“Romulus” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,513
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fondateur mythique de Rome, frère de Rémus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-romulus · Romulus · French
Romulus · rank #39,513 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,513
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rollers
Nearest frequency peer: rollers (-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 « Romulus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- riel
riel
60,492 corpus weight
- rieur
rieur
60,491 corpus weight
- rollers
rollers
60,489 corpus weight
- Romulus
Romulus
60,488 corpus weight
- Romy
Romy
60,487 corpus weight
- rotatif
rotatif
60,485 corpus weight
What this shows « Romulus » 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 | Romulus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.my.lys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Romulus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Romulus (IPA \ʁɔ.my.lys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,513 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fondateur mythique de Rome, frère de Rémus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Romulus, with forms such as "ormulus", "rmoulus", and "romluus". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "roulés", "roulis", "rotules", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 Romulus, spelled R-O-M-U-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Fondateur mythique de Rome, frère de Rémus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Romulus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce roi perfide ne se contenta pas, dit-on, de cette rigueur il usa de violence pour déshonorer cette vestale, dans l’intention de se donner le droit de la punir. Elle mit au monde deux jumeaux, Romulus et Rémus; Rhéa, accusée d’impudicité, déclara que Mars était le père de ses enfants. Le roi la fit plonger dans un cachot, et ordonna qu’on précipitât les…
Le père était debout, et plus loin, contre un arbre, Sa Louve reposait comme celle de marbre Qu’adoraient les Romains, et dont les flancs velus Couvaient les demi-dieux Rémus et Romulus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ormulus
- rmoulus
- romluus
- rommulus
- romullus
- romulsu
- romuluss
- romuuls
- roumlus
- rromulus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Romulus - 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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