ustensile
\ys.tɑ̃.sil\
The verdict
“ustensile” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,420
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet servant aux usages domestiques et principalement à la cuisine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ustensile · ustensile · French
ustensile · rank #49,420 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,420
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Ultron
Nearest frequency peer: Ultron (-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 « ustensile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- turismo
turismo
50,585 corpus weight
- tâcherai
tâcherai
50,583 corpus weight
- Ultron
Ultron
50,582 corpus weight
- ustensile
ustensile
50,581 corpus weight
- vengeurs
vengeurs
50,579 corpus weight
- verriers
verriers
50,577 corpus weight
What this shows « ustensile » 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 | ustensile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ys.tɑ̃.sil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ustensile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ustensile (IPA \ys.tɑ̃.sil\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,420 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ustensile, with forms such as "sutensile", "usetnsile", and "usstensile". 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, "ustensiles", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ustensile, spelled U-S-T-E-N-S-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Objet servant aux usages domestiques et principalement à la cuisine.
- 2Instrument propre à certains arts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ustensile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vis dans sa hutte une théière en étain, un plat en cuivre et plusieurs autres ustensiles du même métal.
Et il m’enverrait des maniques ou des dessous-de-plat ou je ne sais quel grotesque ustensile brodé, sur lequel on verrait sa maison, et une belle grange fraîchement peinte, avec la petite silhouette d’un solide jeune garçon, mon garçon à moi, en train de passer le rouleau. — (Daniel Nayeri, Coco et Cloclo, dans Brigade des crimes imaginaires et autres his…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sutensile
- usetnsile
- usstensile
- ustenisle
- ustennsile
- ustensiel
- ustensille
- ustenslie
- ustenssile
- ustesnile
- ustnesile
- usttensile
- utsensile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ustensile - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).