totale
\tɔ.tal\
The verdict
“totale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,839. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,839
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ablation de la totalité de l'utérus et du vagin en cas de cancer. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
Corpus desk
Index FR-totale · totale · French
totale · rank #1,839 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,839
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH troupes
Nearest frequency peer: troupes (+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 « totale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- savais
savais
98,165 corpus weight
- scolaire
scolaire
98,164 corpus weight
- totale
totale
98,162 corpus weight
- troupes
troupes
98,161 corpus weight
- trouvent
trouvent
98,160 corpus weight
- télévision
télévision
98,159 corpus weight
What this shows « totale » 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 | totale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « totale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around totale (IPA \tɔ.tal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,839 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for totale, with forms such as "ottale", "toatle", and "totael". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "totaux", "totales", "totalité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is totale, spelled T-O-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ablation de la totalité de l'utérus et du vagin en cas de cancer. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
- 2Pompon, cerise sur le gâteau, nouveau problème après une suite de déconvenues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how totale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui a fait la totale. J'ai deux amies qui ont subi la totale.
Je suis malade ça pourrait encore aller avec du repos mais je viens de me payer un torticolis. C'est la totale !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ottale
- toatle
- totael
- totalle
- totlae
- tottale
- ttoale
- ttotale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of totale - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).