style

\stil\

/\stil\/ noun

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The verdict

“style” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #888. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#888
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filament reliant l’ovaire au stigmate, au centre de la fleur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-style · style · French

style · rank #888 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #888
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH second

Nearest frequency peer: second (-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 « style »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « style » 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).

style vs stylo
80% similar
style vs stylos
67% similar
style vs stylet
83% similar

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

Key facts for style
PropertyValue
Headwordstyle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\stil\
Letters5
Frequency rank#888
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « style »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).stylese 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 « second » (#887), « sérieux » (#889), « sang » (#886). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « style » est au #888. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around style (IPA \stil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #888 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 13 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for style, with forms such as "sstyle", "stlye", and "sttyle". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stylo", "stylos", "stylet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is style, spelled S-T-Y-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Filament reliant l’ovaire au stigmate, au centre de la fleur.
  2. 2
    Sorte de poinçon ou de grosse aiguille, avec la pointe de laquelle les anciens écrivaient sur des tablettes enduites de cire.
  3. 3
    Aiguille d’un cadran solaire.
  4. 4
    Manière d'exprimer par écrit les pensées.
  5. 5
    Manière d’agir ou de parler.
  6. 6
    Manière d'exécuter particulière à un artiste, à une époque, à un pays.
  7. 7
    Caractère de la composition.
  8. 8
    Vocabulaire, tournure, jargon caractéristique d’un langage administratif ou technique.
  9. 9
    Apparence d’un objet ou d’une personne. Ensemble de caractéristiques définissant son identité.
  10. 10
    Comportement habituel d’un individu.
  11. 11
    Type, genre affectionné ou recherché.
  12. 12
    Genre, utilisé pour cataloguer quelqu’un ou quelque chose, souligner son appartenance à une catégorie.
  13. 13
    (Chronologie) Manière d’écrire les dates et notamment de fixer le commencement de l’année, en particulier l’utilisation du calendrier grégorien ou républicain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how style appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le Limettier acide (C. Aurantium, sous-espèce aurantifolia, var. proper), a le fruit limoniforme, terminé par un mamelon quelquefois surmonté par un style persistant.
  2. Le style est long car il est nécessaire de tenir haut le stigmate de façon à ce que les abeilles puissent s'y cogner. Cela oblige le tube pollinique à se lancer dans une odyssée difficile et cette épreuve permet à la plante de jauger ses prétendants.

Synonyms

aiguillegnomonpointetigecaractèreesthétiquegenreallureapparenceesthétiquelookgenrehabitudegenretasse de thétypeacabitenvergureespècegenrenatureordresortetype

This word in other languages

style(English)estilo(Español)Stil(Deutsch)estilo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sstyle
  • stlye
  • sttyle
  • styel
  • stylle
  • styyle
  • sytle
  • tsyle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

sstyle1stlye2sttyle1styel2stylle1styyle1sytle2tsyle2
Edit distance from "style"

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 "style"?
"style" is spelled S-T-Y-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \stil\.
What does "style" mean?
As a noun, "style" means: Filament reliant l’ovaire au stigmate, au centre de la fleur.
What words are commonly confused with "style"?
"style" is commonly confused with "stylo", "stylos", "stylet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "style"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "style" is \stil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "style" come from?
"style" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

terrain8 variantssamedi8 variantslongue8 variantsfinale8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list