Stendhal
\stɛ̃.dal\
The verdict
“Stendhal” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,760
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de plume de Henri Beyle, écrivain français.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Stendhal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \stɛ̃.dal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Stendhal” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Stendhal (IPA \stɛ̃.dal\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,760 among 394,209 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de plume de Henri Beyle, écrivain français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Stendhal, with forms such as "setndhal", "sstendhal", and "stednhal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Stendhal, spelled S-T-E-N-D-H-A-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de plume de Henri Beyle, écrivain français.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: setndhal,sstendhal,stednhal,stendahl,stenddhal,stendhall,stendhhal,stendhla,stenhdal,stenndhal,stnedhal,sttendhal,tsendhal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Stendhal - 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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Using “Stendhal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-E-N-D-H-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \stɛ̃.dal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.