trail
\tʁɛjl\
The verdict
“trail” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,375
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moto tout-terrain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trail · trail · French
trail · rank #14,375 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,375
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tortues
Nearest frequency peer: tortues (-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 « trail »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Titan
Titan
85,629 corpus weight
- tolérer
tolérer
85,628 corpus weight
- tortues
tortues
85,627 corpus weight
- trail
trail
85,626 corpus weight
- transforment
transforment
85,625 corpus weight
- tuberculose
tuberculose
85,624 corpus weight
What this shows « trail » 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 | trail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɛjl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trail »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around trail (IPA \tʁɛjl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,375 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for trail, with forms such as "rtail", "taril", and "traill". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tri", "trio", "trip", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is trail, spelled T-R-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Moto tout-terrain.
- 2Course à pied sur longue distance en milieu naturel, pratiquée en sport de compétition ou en loisir.
- 3Camping-car.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Résultat, au guidon, on se sent comme sur un trail : assis droit et haut perché, bras écartés par le large guidon et genoux peu pliés.
Dans le haut du panier, la catégorie des trails routiers bénéficie d'un grand prestige et ne cesse d'être améliorée. Parmi eux, on trouve des modèles tels que la Honda Crosstourer 1200, la Kawasaki Versys 1000, la KTM 1190 Adventur, […].
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtail
- taril
- traill
- trali
- trrail
- ttrail
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trail - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).