wild
\wajld\
The verdict
“wild” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,974
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sort des cadres habituels, excentrique, fantasque, audacieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wild · wild · French
wild · rank #10,974 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,974
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH when
Nearest frequency peer: when (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wild”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wallonie
Wallonie
89,029 corpus weight
- when
when
89,028 corpus weight
- wild
wild
89,027 corpus weight
- Yémen
Yémen
89,026 corpus weight
- écrivant
écrivant
89,025 corpus weight
- écurie
écurie
89,024 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wild” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | wild |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \wajld\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “wild” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around wild (IPA \wajld\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,974 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui sort des cadres habituels, excentrique, fantasque, audacieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for wild, with forms such as "iwld", "widl", and "wildd". 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, "win", "Wim", "with", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is wild, spelled W-I-L-D.
Definition
- 1Qui sort des cadres habituels, excentrique, fantasque, audacieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wild appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— François Pinault ? » Jed était surpris. « Le journaliste Jean-Pierre Pernaut animant une conférence de rédaction » était un tableau discret, de facture classique, qui ne correspondait nullement aux choix habituels, beaucoup plus wild, de l’affairiste breton. Il avait décidé de diversifier, sans doute.
Ironiquement, Sophie me reprochait toujours de ne pas la trouver assez wild, de la trouver trop straight, trop madame, et là, c'est moi qui faisais ma petite fille de douze ans. […] elle aurait voulu que je lui dise que ben voyons, bien sûr que tu es wild, que tu vis sans port d'attache et sans souci, qu'on ne sait pas où te prévoir ni te chercher, etc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwld
- widl
- wildd
- willd
- wlid
- wwild
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wild - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "wild" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "win". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,974 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "W" letter cohort. W–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.