rotule
\ʁɔ.tyl\
The verdict
“rotule” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,517
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit os plat, triangulaire, à angles arrondis, placé en avant du genou, à l’endroit où le fémur s’articule avec le tibia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotule · rotule · French
rotule · rank #39,517 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,517
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rotatif
Nearest frequency peer: rotatif (-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 « rotule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Romulus
Romulus
60,488 corpus weight
- Romy
Romy
60,487 corpus weight
- rotatif
rotatif
60,485 corpus weight
- rotule
rotule
60,484 corpus weight
- rouage
rouage
60,483 corpus weight
- rule
rule
60,480 corpus weight
What this shows « rotule » 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 | rotule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.tyl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rotule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rotule (IPA \ʁɔ.tyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,517 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rotule, with forms such as "ortule", "rotlue", and "rottule". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "rule", "roué", "route", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rotule, spelled R-O-T-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit os plat, triangulaire, à angles arrondis, placé en avant du genou, à l’endroit où le fémur s’articule avec le tibia.
- 2Pièce de forme sphérique utilisée comme articulation dans les organes qu’on doit pouvoir orienter dans tous les sens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rotule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une balle reçue au cours d’une rixe provoquée par lui pour ne pas laisser mettre en doute qu’il était un homme, lui avait brisé le genou ; il était affublé d’une rotule de métal, d’où son surnom.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ortule
- rotlue
- rottule
- rotuel
- rotulle
- routle
- rrotule
- rtoule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rotule - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).