stipule

\sti.pyl\

/\sti.pyl\/ noun

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The verdict

“stipule” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,260
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appendice écailleux ou foliacé situé à la base du pétiole d’une feuille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-stipule · stipule · French

stipule · rank #15,260 · 10 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,260
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sy

Nearest frequency peer: sy (+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 « stipule »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « stipule » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

stipule vs simulé
57% similar
stipule vs stimuli
71% similar
stipule vs stimulé
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for stipule
PropertyValue
Headwordstipule
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sti.pyl\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,260
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « stipule »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).stipulese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sy » (#15,261), « souhaits » (#15,258), « syndicaliste » (#15,262). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « stipule » est au #15,260. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around stipule (IPA \sti.pyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,260 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Appendice écailleux ou foliacé situé à la base du pétiole d’une feuille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for stipule, with forms such as "sitpule", "sstipule", and "stiplue". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "simulé", "stimuli", "stimulé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is stipule, spelled S-T-I-P-U-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appendice écailleux ou foliacé situé à la base du pétiole d’une feuille.

This word in other languages

stipule(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sitpule
  • sstipule
  • stiplue
  • stippule
  • stipuel
  • stipulle
  • stiuple
  • stpiule
  • sttipule
  • tsipule

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stipule - 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.

sitpule2sstipule1stiplue2stippule1stipuel2stipulle1stiuple2stpiule2
Edit distance from "stipule"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stipule"?
"stipule" is spelled S-T-I-P-U-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sti.pyl\.
What does "stipule" mean?
As a noun, "stipule" means: Appendice écailleux ou foliacé situé à la base du pétiole d’une feuille.
What words are commonly confused with "stipule"?
"stipule" is commonly confused with "simulé", "stimuli", "stimulé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "stipule"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stipule" is \sti.pyl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stipule" come from?
"stipule" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "stipule", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list