would
\wʊd\
The verdict
“would” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,457. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,457
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passé du verbe auxiliaire will, correspondant au conditionnel du français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-would · would · French
would · rank #22,457 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,457
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Walsh
Nearest frequency peer: Walsh (-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 « would »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- viva
viva
77,547 corpus weight
- votant
votant
77,546 corpus weight
- Walsh
Walsh
77,545 corpus weight
- would
would
77,544 corpus weight
- XXL
XXL
77,543 corpus weight
- zizi
zizi
77,542 corpus weight
What this shows « would » 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 | would |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \wʊd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « would »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around would (IPA \wʊd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,457 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for would, with forms such as "owuld", "wolud", and "woudl". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "wild", "Wolf", "word", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is would, spelled W-O-U-L-D.
Definition
- 1Passé du verbe auxiliaire will, correspondant au conditionnel du français.
- 2Subjonctif passé du verbe auxiliaire will.
- 3Correspond aussi à l’imparfait du français.
- 4Pour parler formellement, correspondant au conditionnel du français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how would appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I would play football, but I am busy.
In the winter, we would sit by the hole on the frozen lake and fish for hours.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owuld
- wolud
- woudl
- wouldd
- woulld
- wuold
- wwould
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of would - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "would", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).