unilatéral
\y.ni.la.te.ʁal\
The verdict
“unilatéral” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,930
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à un seul côté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-unilateral · unilatéral · French
unilatéral · rank #33,930 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #33,930
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH tutoriel
Nearest frequency peer: tutoriel (-2 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 « unilatéral »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trucks
trucks
66,075 corpus weight
- tuba
tuba
66,074 corpus weight
- tutoriel
tutoriel
66,073 corpus weight
- unilatéral
unilatéral
66,071 corpus weight
- vains
vains
66,069 corpus weight
- verglas
verglas
66,068 corpus weight
What this shows « unilatéral » 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 | unilatéral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.ni.la.te.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #33,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « unilatéral »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around unilatéral (IPA \y.ni.la.te.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,930 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for unilatéral, with forms such as "nuilatéral", "uinlatéral", and "unialtéral". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "unilatérale", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is unilatéral, spelled U-N-I-L-A-T-É-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à un seul côté.
- 2Relatif à un seul côté.
- 3Relatif à un seul côté.
- 4Relatif à un seul côté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unilatéral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Douleur fulgurante, unilatérale, en éclairs (décharges électriques), dans le territoire d’une ou plusieurs branches du trijumeau.
Les fleurs de la bourrache sont unilatérales.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuilatéral
- uinlatéral
- unialtéral
- unilateral
- unilatréal
- unilattéral
- unilatéarl
- unilatérall
- unilatérla
- unilatérral
- unilaétral
- unillatéral
- uniltaéral
- unliatéral
- unnilatéral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unilatéral - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "unilatéral", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).