tangible
\tɑ̃.ʒibl\
The verdict
“tangible” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,480
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être touché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tangible · tangible · French
tangible · rank #21,480 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,480
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH T2
Nearest frequency peer: T2 (-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 « tangible »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suivirent
suivirent
78,525 corpus weight
- surgir
surgir
78,524 corpus weight
- syndicaux
syndicaux
78,523 corpus weight
- T2
T2
78,522 corpus weight
- tangible
tangible
78,521 corpus weight
- tapie
tapie
78,519 corpus weight
What this shows « tangible » 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 | tangible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.ʒibl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tangible »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tangible (IPA \tɑ̃.ʒibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,480 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui peut être touché.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tangible, with forms such as "atngible", "tagnible", and "tangbile". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tangibles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tangible, spelled T-A-N-G-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être touché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tangible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'armée est la manifestation la plus claire, la plus tangible et la plus solidement rattachée aux origines que l'on puisse avoir de l'État.
[…], Mimile faisait de temps à autre claquer vigoureusement son fouet pour, d’une façon précise et tangible, rappeler au sentiment de la discipline ses tributaires encornés se bousculant dans les ornières boueuses de l’étroit chemin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atngible
- tagnible
- tangbile
- tanggible
- tangibble
- tangibel
- tangiblle
- tangilbe
- tanigble
- tanngible
- tnagible
- ttangible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tangible - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tangible", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).