virale
\vi.ʁal\
The verdict
“virale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,186. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,186
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de viral.
Corpus desk
Index FR-virale · virale · French
virale · rank #19,186 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,186
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Villers
Nearest frequency peer: Villers (-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 « virale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vestes
vestes
80,818 corpus weight
- Villers
Villers
80,816 corpus weight
- virale
virale
80,815 corpus weight
- volaille
volaille
80,814 corpus weight
- vélodrome
vélodrome
80,813 corpus weight
- Waterloo
Waterloo
80,812 corpus weight
What this shows « virale » 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 | virale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « virale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around virale (IPA \vi.ʁal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,186 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de viral.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for virale, with forms such as "ivrale", "viarle", and "virael". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vire", "vraie", "vital", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is virale, spelled V-I-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de viral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how virale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors que Dayot Upamecano et Adrien Rabiot, touchés par une maladie probablement virale et absents contre le Maroc, ont fait leur retour à l’entraînement, jeudi, c’est Kingsley Coman qui est « resté par précaution à l’hôtel », a expliqué le staff tricolore.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivrale
- viarle
- virael
- viralle
- virlae
- virrale
- vriale
- vvirale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of virale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).