rural
\ʁy.ʁal\
The verdict
“rural” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,750. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,750
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la campagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rural · rural · French
rural · rank #6,750 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,750
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retrouvée
Nearest frequency peer: retrouvée (-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 « rural »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- restez
restez
93,254 corpus weight
- retrouvée
retrouvée
93,252 corpus weight
- rural
rural
93,251 corpus weight
- rédigé
rédigé
93,250 corpus weight
- réelles
réelles
93,249 corpus weight
- régulation
régulation
93,248 corpus weight
What this shows « rural » 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 | rural |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁy.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rural »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rural (IPA \ʁy.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,750 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rural, with forms such as "rrual", "rrural", and "ruarl". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "rurale", "ruraux", "rurales", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 rural, spelled R-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la campagne.
- 2Qualifie une commune de moins de 2000 habitants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'été 1882 me conduit à nouveau à Celeyran, un séjour bucolique durant lequel, pour garder la main, je peins des boeufs, des chevaux de trait, des paysans et des travailleurs des champs. Mais bien que je prenne plaisir à cet exercice, je sens bien que ce n'est pas dans la peinture rurale, trop rustique, que je ferai carrière.
Soit, d'abord, le niveau culturel. En 529 le concile de Vaison avait ordonné que les prêtres ruraux éduquassent les candidats à la cléricature.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rrual
- rrural
- ruarl
- rurall
- rurla
- rurral
- urral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rural - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).