universelle
\y.ni.vɛʁ.sɛl\
The verdict
“universelle” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,001. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,001
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de universel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-universelle · universelle · French
universelle · rank #5,001 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,001
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH troupe
Nearest frequency peer: troupe (-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 « universelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tenait
tenait
95,003 corpus weight
- tendre
tendre
95,002 corpus weight
- troupe
troupe
95,001 corpus weight
- universelle
universelle
95,000 corpus weight
- étend
étend
94,999 corpus weight
- œufs
œufs
94,998 corpus weight
What this shows « universelle » 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 | universelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.ni.vɛʁ.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « universelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around universelle (IPA \y.ni.vɛʁ.sɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,001 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de universel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for universelle, with forms such as "nuiverselle", "uinverselle", and "unievrselle". 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, "universels", "universelles", "universel", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is universelle, spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de universel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how universelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le déclin général des communautés sépharades aux dix-huitième et dix-neuvième siècles a certes fait oublier cet idéal humaniste et l’harmonieuse cohabitation avec la culture ambiante, mais ne serait-ce pas en souvenir de cette tradition d’ouverture que les rabbins sépharades, tout autour de la Méditerranée, de la Bulgarie au Maroc, furent si prompts à enc…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuiverselle
- uinverselle
- unievrselle
- univereslle
- univerrselle
- universele
- universelel
- universlele
- universselle
- univesrelle
- univreselle
- univverselle
- unniverselle
- unvierselle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of universelle - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "universelle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).