saule
\sol\
The verdict
“saule” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,361
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre d’arbres ou d’arbustes, à feuilles caduques, alternes, ovales ou lancéolées, aux fleurs réunies en chatons, mâles ou femelles, portés par des pieds différents (plantes dioïques) et qui croiss...
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Index FR-saule · saule · French
saule · rank #30,361 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,361
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sandro
Nearest frequency peer: sandro (-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 « saule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saigné
saigné
69,643 corpus weight
- saluée
saluée
69,642 corpus weight
- sandro
sandro
69,641 corpus weight
- saule
saule
69,640 corpus weight
- savoureuse
savoureuse
69,639 corpus weight
- Schubert
Schubert
69,638 corpus weight
What this shows « saule » 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 | saule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sol\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « saule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around saule (IPA \sol\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,361 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for saule, with forms such as "asule", "sauel", and "saulle". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sul", "seul", "saut", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is saule, spelled S-A-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Genre d’arbres ou d’arbustes, à feuilles caduques, alternes, ovales ou lancéolées, aux fleurs réunies en chatons, mâles ou femelles, portés par des pieds différents (plantes dioïques) et qui croissent ordinairement dans les prés et le long des ruisseaux.
- 2Bois du saule, utilisé en menuiserie, vannerie, ébénisterie, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how saule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais voilà-t-il pas que le saule, qui était creux et pourri dans le cœur, craque sous son poids et se brise avec un fracas épouvantable !
Les odeurs forestières, senteurs adorées par les âmes friandes de poésie à qui plaisent les mousses les plus innocentes, les cryptogames les plus vénéneux, les terres mouillées, les saules, les baumes, le serpolet, les eaux vertes d’une mare, l’étoile arrondie des nénuphars jaunes ; toutes ces vigoureuses fécondations se livrent à vos narines en vous livr…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asule
- sauel
- saulle
- ssaule
- suale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of saule - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saule", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (5 here; floor ≥5).