spoil
\spɔjl\
The verdict
“spoil” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,201
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de dévoiler à l’avance ou divulguer prématurément un élément clé de l’intrigue d’une œuvre de fiction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spoil · spoil · French
spoil · rank #32,201 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,201
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spaghettis
Nearest frequency peer: spaghettis (-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 « spoil »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soulignons
soulignons
67,803 corpus weight
- southern
southern
67,802 corpus weight
- spaghettis
spaghettis
67,801 corpus weight
- spoil
spoil
67,800 corpus weight
- spéculateurs
spéculateurs
67,799 corpus weight
- stack
stack
67,798 corpus weight
What this shows « spoil » 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 | spoil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔjl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spoil »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around spoil (IPA \spɔjl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,201 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fait de dévoiler à l’avance ou divulguer prématurément un élément clé de l’intrigue d’une œuvre de fiction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for spoil, with forms such as "psoil", "sopil", and "spiol". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "spot", "Sport", "spots", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is spoil, spelled S-P-O-I-L.
Definition
- 1Fait de dévoiler à l’avance ou divulguer prématurément un élément clé de l’intrigue d’une œuvre de fiction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spoil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le spoil est rarement apprécié.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psoil
- sopil
- spiol
- spoill
- spoli
- sppoil
- sspoil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spoil - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).