willis
\wil.lis\
The verdict
“willis” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,417
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeunes filles condamnées, d’après une légende de Bohême, à sortir, après leur mort, du tombeau et à danser toute la nuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-willis · willis · French
willis · rank #23,417 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,417
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wenger
Nearest frequency peer: Wenger (-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 « willis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vigilants
vigilants
76,587 corpus weight
- wan
wan
76,586 corpus weight
- Wenger
Wenger
76,585 corpus weight
- willis
willis
76,584 corpus weight
- Wisconsin
Wisconsin
76,583 corpus weight
- without
without
76,582 corpus weight
What this shows « willis » 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 | willis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wil.lis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « willis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around willis (IPA \wil.lis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,417 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jeunes filles condamnées, d’après une légende de Bohême, à sortir, après leur mort, du tombeau et à danser toute la nuit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for willis, with forms such as "iwllis", "wilils", and "wilis". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Willy", "willow", "will", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 willis, spelled W-I-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Jeunes filles condamnées, d’après une légende de Bohême, à sortir, après leur mort, du tombeau et à danser toute la nuit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwllis
- wilils
- wilis
- williss
- willsi
- wlilis
- wwillis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of willis - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).