viril
\vi.ʁil\
The verdict
“viril” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,889
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient à l’homme, en tant que mâle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-viril · viril · French
viril · rank #20,889 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,889
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vigile
Nearest frequency peer: vigile (-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 « viril »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- viaduc
viaduc
79,115 corpus weight
- vieillit
vieillit
79,114 corpus weight
- vigile
vigile
79,113 corpus weight
- viril
viril
79,112 corpus weight
- visionner
visionner
79,111 corpus weight
- viticole
viticole
79,110 corpus weight
What this shows « viril » 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 | viril |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.ʁil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « viril »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around viril (IPA \vi.ʁil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,889 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for viril, with forms such as "ivril", "viirl", and "virill". 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, "Viry", "virus", "vital", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is viril, spelled V-I-R-I-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient à l’homme, en tant que mâle.
- 2Relatif à l’homme adulte ; qui présente ou réclame des qualités de force, d’endurance, de résistance ou une propension à la violence que l’on prête plus spécialement aux hommes.
- 3Qui est digne d’un homme, qui est fier, ferme, énergique et digne.
- 4Individuel, respectif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how viril appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il se dresse face à quelque « vieille écorce », chêne, frêne, ou hêtre, […] Arsène André éprouve une virile volupté. Sa chair se durcit, son col se gonfle, le sang lui afflue aux tempes à coups précipités
S'il y eut des saintes et des martyres, en revanche point de papesses ou seulement de clergeonnes. La messe est purement virile.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivril
- viirl
- virill
- virli
- virril
- vriil
- vviril
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of viril - 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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).