RTL
\ɛʁ.te.ɛl\
The verdict
“RTL” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,399) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,399
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrit de droite à gauche, comme l’arabe et l’hébreu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rtl · RTL · French
RTL · rank #10,399 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,399
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rompu
Nearest frequency peer: rompu (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « RTL »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- ris
ris
89,605 corpus weight
- robinet
robinet
89,604 corpus weight
- rompu
rompu
89,603 corpus weight
- RTL
RTL
89,602 corpus weight
- ruban
ruban
89,601 corpus weight
- récolter
récolter
89,600 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « RTL » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | RTL |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛʁ.te.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « RTL »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for RTL is neighbouring look-alikes ("ru", "RV", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ɛʁ.te.ɛl\. Frequency #10,399 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Écrit de droite à gauche, comme l’arabe et l’hébreu.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for RTL, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ru", "RV", "Ry", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is RTL, spelled R-T-L.
Definition
- 1Écrit de droite à gauche, comme l’arabe et l’hébreu.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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