tropical
\tʁɔ.pi.kal\
The verdict
“tropical” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,356
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux tropiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tropical · tropical · French
tropical · rank #18,356 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,356
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH trompés
Nearest frequency peer: trompés (-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 « tropical »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tremblements
tremblements
81,648 corpus weight
- trompés
trompés
81,646 corpus weight
- tropical
tropical
81,645 corpus weight
- trouverais
trouverais
81,644 corpus weight
- tumblr
tumblr
81,643 corpus weight
- vases
vases
81,642 corpus weight
What this shows « tropical » 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 | tropical |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.pi.kal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tropical »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tropical (IPA \tʁɔ.pi.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,356 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tropical, with forms such as "rtopical", "torpical", and "troipcal". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tropicale", "tropicaux", "tropicales", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tropical, spelled T-R-O-P-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux tropiques.
- 2Qui a le caractère des tropiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tropical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Structure des Fougères. — Ces sont des plantes aflores, aux tiges généralement souterraines (rhizomes) pour les espèces des régions tempérées, parfois ligneuses chez celles des zones tropicales.
Beaucoup d’observateurs admettent l’existence de plusieurs espèces d’hématozoaires du paludisme : hématozoaires des fièvres tropicales, de la tierce et de la quarte. Je pense qu’il s’agit de simples variétés d’une même espèce polymorphe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtopical
- torpical
- troipcal
- tropcial
- tropiacl
- tropicall
- tropiccal
- tropicla
- troppical
- trpoical
- trropical
- ttropical
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tropical - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).