topless
\tɔp.lɛs\
The verdict
“topless” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,493. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,493
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a les seins nus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-topless · topless · French
topless · rank #46,493 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,493
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tombais
Nearest frequency peer: tombais (-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 « topless »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tisserands
tisserands
53,511 corpus weight
- tissée
tissée
53,510 corpus weight
- tombais
tombais
53,509 corpus weight
- topless
topless
53,508 corpus weight
- tords
tords
53,507 corpus weight
- tortionnaire
tortionnaire
53,506 corpus weight
What this shows « topless » 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 | topless |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɔp.lɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « topless »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around topless (IPA \tɔp.lɛs\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,493 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a les seins nus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for topless, with forms such as "otpless", "tolpess", and "topelss". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tôles", "toiles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is topless, spelled T-O-P-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Qui a les seins nus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how topless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anthony le tannait depuis des jours pour aller faire un tour du côté de la plage des culs-nus, qu’on avait d’ailleurs baptisé ainsi par excès d’optimisme, parce qu’on n’y voyait guère que des filles topless, et encore.
Danseuse topless.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otpless
- tolpess
- topelss
- toples
- toplless
- toplses
- toppless
- tpoless
- ttopless
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of topless - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).