tropicale
\tʁɔ.pi.kal\
The verdict
“tropicale” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,817
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de tropical.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tropicale · tropicale · French
tropicale · rank #14,817 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,817
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Vaucluse
Nearest frequency peer: Vaucluse (+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 « tropicale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traduite
traduite
85,187 corpus weight
- traduits
traduits
85,186 corpus weight
- tropicale
tropicale
85,184 corpus weight
- Vaucluse
Vaucluse
85,183 corpus weight
- vestiaires
vestiaires
85,182 corpus weight
- viable
viable
85,181 corpus weight
What this shows « tropicale » 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 | tropicale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.pi.kal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tropicale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tropicale (IPA \tʁɔ.pi.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,817 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de tropical.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tropicale, with forms such as "rtopicale", "torpicale", and "troipcale". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tropicaux", "tropicales", "tropical", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tropicale, spelled T-R-O-P-I-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de tropical.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tropicale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ce moment, la pluie se mit à tomber avec une vigueur tropicale, en grosses gouttes espacées et rebondissantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtopicale
- torpicale
- troipcale
- tropciale
- tropiacle
- tropicael
- tropicalle
- tropiccale
- tropiclae
- troppicale
- trpoicale
- trropicale
- ttropicale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tropicale - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).