spirale
\spi.ʁal\
The verdict
“spirale” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #11,307 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,307
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Courbe plane qui s’écarte toujours de plus en plus du point autour duquel elle fait une infinité de révolutions.
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 | spirale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spi.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spirale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for spirale is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \spi.ʁal\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,307 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for spirale, with forms such as "psirale", "siprale", and "spiarle". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "spire", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is spirale, spelled S-P-I-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Courbe plane qui s’écarte toujours de plus en plus du point autour duquel elle fait une infinité de révolutions.
- 2Objet qui a une forme approchante de la spirale ou de la spire ; suite de circonvolutions.
- 3Développement incontrôlé d’un phénomène.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psirale,siprale,spiarle,spirael,spiralle,spirlae,spirrale,sppirale,spriale,sspirale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spirale - 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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Using “spirale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-P-I-R-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \spi.ʁal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “spire” - see the side-by-side comparison. spirale vs spire
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.