tolérable
\tɔ.le.ʁabl\
The verdict
“tolérable” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,569
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on peut tolérer, qu’on peut supporter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tolerable · tolérable · French
tolérable · rank #38,569 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,569
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tolérante
Nearest frequency peer: tolérante (+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 « tolérable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- terroriser
terroriser
61,436 corpus weight
- Theater
Theater
61,435 corpus weight
- tolérable
tolérable
61,432 corpus weight
- tolérante
tolérante
61,431 corpus weight
- tomorrow
tomorrow
61,429 corpus weight
- tonte
tonte
61,428 corpus weight
What this shows « tolérable » 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 | tolérable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔ.le.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tolérable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around tolérable (IPA \tɔ.le.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,569 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qu’on peut tolérer, qu’on peut supporter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for tolérable, with forms such as "otlérable", "tloérable", and "tolerable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tolérante", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tolérable, spelled T-O-L-É-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qu’on peut tolérer, qu’on peut supporter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tolérable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pensez-vous que cela soit tolérable ?
Cette douleur n’est pas tolérable.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otlérable
- tloérable
- tolerable
- tollérable
- tolréable
- toléarble
- tolérabble
- tolérabel
- tolérablle
- toléralbe
- tolérbale
- tolérrable
- toélrable
- ttolérable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tolérable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).