spoiler
\spɔj.lœʁ\
The verdict
“spoiler” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,482
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif aérodynamique amovible visant à diminuer la portance d’un véhicule (voiture, avion).
Corpus desk
Index FR-spoiler · spoiler · French
spoiler · rank #13,482 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,482
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soupçon
Nearest frequency peer: soupçon (-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 « spoiler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- souhaitable
souhaitable
86,522 corpus weight
- soulèvement
soulèvement
86,521 corpus weight
- soupçon
soupçon
86,520 corpus weight
- spoiler
spoiler
86,519 corpus weight
- TD
TD
86,518 corpus weight
- too
too
86,517 corpus weight
What this shows « spoiler » 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 | spoiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɔj.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spoiler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around spoiler (IPA \spɔj.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,482 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for spoiler, with forms such as "psoiler", "sopiler", and "spioler". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "spoilers", "spoil", "soler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 spoiler, spelled S-P-O-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Dispositif aérodynamique amovible visant à diminuer la portance d’un véhicule (voiture, avion).
- 2Divulgation prématurée d’un élément clé (d’une intrigue, d’un jeu, etc.) susceptible de gâcher, de spolier une partie du plaisir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spoiler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jacob Mkezi, Cake Mullins et lui entourent la Subaru bleue, équipée d'un spoiler, garée dans l'allée de la villa de Cake Mullins à Constantia.
Suite au crash de l'American 965, un débat fit rage au sujet de non rentrée automatique des spoilers lorsque le pilote appliqua la poussée maximale.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psoiler
- sopiler
- spioler
- spoielr
- spoilerr
- spoiller
- spoilre
- spolier
- sppoiler
- sspoiler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spoiler - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spoiler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).