utile
\y.til\
The verdict
“utile” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,726
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est profitable ou avantageux ; qui sert à quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-utile · utile · French
utile · rank #1,726 · 5 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,726
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH transports
Nearest frequency peer: transports (-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 « utile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tenter
tenter
98,278 corpus weight
- test
test
98,277 corpus weight
- transports
transports
98,276 corpus weight
- utile
utile
98,275 corpus weight
- Achat
Achat
98,274 corpus weight
- bordeaux
bordeaux
98,273 corpus weight
What this shows « utile » 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 | utile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.til\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « utile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around utile (IPA \y.til\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,726 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for utile, with forms such as "uitle", "utiel", and "utille". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "utiles", "utilisé", "utilité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 utile, spelled U-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est profitable ou avantageux ; qui sert à quelque chose.
- 2Qualifie le rang des créanciers qui, d’après la date de leur hypothèque, seront payés sur les biens du débiteur.
- 3Qualifie la partie économiquement active d'un pays ou d’une nation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how utile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car qui doute que nous ne désirions tout ce qui nous est utile ? une pente naturelle nous y porte , & nous ne sçaurions nous empêcher de la suivre : il n’y a donc personne qui rejette ce qui est utile & qui même ne le recherche avec beaucoup d'ardeur.
Une uro-IRM peut être utile en cas de lésion urétérale.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uitle
- utiel
- utille
- utlie
- uttile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of utile - 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 "utile", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).