utiles

\y.til\

/\y.til\/ adj

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The verdict

“utiles” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,452
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de utile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-utiles · utiles · French

utiles · rank #4,452 · 7 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,452
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH universel

Nearest frequency peer: universel (-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 « utiles »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « utiles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

utiles vs utilisé
71% similar
utiles vs utilisa
71% similar
utiles vs utilisés
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for utiles
PropertyValue
Headwordutiles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\y.til\
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,452
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « utiles »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.utilesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « universel » (#4,451), « utilité » (#4,453), « TVA » (#4,450). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « utiles » est au #4,452. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around utiles (IPA \y.til\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,452 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de utile.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for utiles, with forms such as "uitles", "utiels", and "utiless". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "utilisé", "utilisa", "utilisés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 utiles, spelled U-T-I-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de utile.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how utiles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’ensemble des discours écrits ou oraux exprimés dans une diversité de registres, constitue le socle linguistique à partir duquel le juge, retenant les éléments utiles à la manifestation de la vérité, fondera son intime conviction.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • uitles
  • utiels
  • utiless
  • utilles
  • utilse
  • utlies
  • uttiles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of utiles - 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.

uitles2utiels2utiless1utilles1utilse2utlies2uttiles1
Edit distance from "utiles"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "utiles"?
"utiles" is spelled U-T-I-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \y.til\.
What does "utiles" mean?
As an adjective, "utiles" means: Pluriel de utile.
What words are commonly confused with "utiles"?
"utiles" is commonly confused with "utilisé", "utilisa", "utilisés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "utiles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "utiles" is \y.til\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "utiles" come from?
"utiles" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "utiles", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

serge7 variantsfesses7 variantschair7 variantscannes7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list