thriller
\sʁi.lœʁ\
The verdict
“thriller” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,676
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Œuvre littéraire ou cinématographique qui vise à donner des émotions fortes au lecteur ou au spectateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thriller · thriller · French
thriller · rank #11,676 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,676
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terroir
Nearest frequency peer: terroir (-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 « thriller »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suspendue
suspendue
88,328 corpus weight
- tardive
tardive
88,327 corpus weight
- terroir
terroir
88,326 corpus weight
- thriller
thriller
88,325 corpus weight
- tiroir
tiroir
88,324 corpus weight
- tirées
tirées
88,323 corpus weight
What this shows « thriller » 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 | thriller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sʁi.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « thriller »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around thriller (IPA \sʁi.lœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,676 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Œuvre littéraire ou cinématographique qui vise à donner des émotions fortes au lecteur ou au spectateur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for thriller, with forms such as "htriller", "thhriller", and "thirller". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tripler", "troller", "titiller", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is thriller, spelled T-H-R-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Œuvre littéraire ou cinématographique qui vise à donner des émotions fortes au lecteur ou au spectateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thriller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout à la fois thriller haletant et chronique d’une Amérique en crise, le dernier roman de Douglas Kennedy nous plonge dans les réalités socio-économiques d’un pays où les idéologies extrêmes s’affrontent violemment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htriller
- thhriller
- thirller
- thrilelr
- thriler
- thrillerr
- thrillre
- thrliler
- thrriller
- trhiller
- tthriller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thriller - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).