abbés
\a.be\
The verdict
“abbés” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,869. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,869
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de abbé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abbes · abbés · French
abbés · rank #25,869 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,869
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aboutissant
Nearest frequency peer: aboutissant (+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 « abbés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- épicé
épicé
74,136 corpus weight
- érudits
érudits
74,135 corpus weight
- abbés
abbés
74,132 corpus weight
- aboutissant
aboutissant
74,131 corpus weight
- accroc
accroc
74,130 corpus weight
- acheminer
acheminer
74,129 corpus weight
What this shows « abbés » 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 | abbés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.be\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « abbés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around abbés (IPA \a.be\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,869 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de abbé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for abbés, with forms such as "abbes", "abbsé", and "abbéss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "abe", "aes", "abus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is abbés, spelled A-B-B-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de abbé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbes
- abbsé
- abbéss
- abébs
- abés
- babés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abbés - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).