accidents
\ak.si.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“accidents” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,116
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de accident.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accidents · accidents · French
accidents · rank #4,116 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,116
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH étudié
Nearest frequency peer: étudié (-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 « accidents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- économies
économies
95,888 corpus weight
- églises
églises
95,887 corpus weight
- étudié
étudié
95,886 corpus weight
- accidents
accidents
95,885 corpus weight
- administrat…
administratif
95,884 corpus weight
- administrat…
administrative
95,883 corpus weight
What this shows « accidents » 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 | accidents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.si.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accidents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around accidents (IPA \ak.si.dɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,116 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de accident.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for accidents, with forms such as "accdients", "acciddents", and "accidennts". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "accents", "accident", "accèdent", 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 accidents, spelled A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de accident.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how accidents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le développement des techniques de l’urgence et les résultats spectaculaires qu’elles obtenaient sur le terrain des accidents, dans le traitement des pathologies lourdes et très délabrantes ont attiré, dès le début, l’attention des médias de l’image, en particulier des médecins télévisés, et ont en quelque sorte « façonné » la compréhension du public à ce…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accdients
- acciddents
- accidennts
- accidenst
- accidentss
- accidentts
- accidetns
- accidnets
- acciednts
- acicdents
- acidents
- cacidents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accidents - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).