actes
\akt\
The verdict
“actes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,552
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de acte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-actes · actes · French
actes · rank #1,552 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,552
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH événements
Nearest frequency peer: événements (-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 « actes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- élu
élu
98,452 corpus weight
- événements
événements
98,450 corpus weight
- actes
actes
98,449 corpus weight
- atteindre
atteindre
98,448 corpus weight
- bizarre
bizarre
98,447 corpus weight
- catégorie
catégorie
98,446 corpus weight
What this shows « actes » 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 | actes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \akt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « actes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around actes (IPA \akt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,552 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de acte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for actes, with forms such as "acctes", "acets", and "actess". 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, "aes", "arts", "âmes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is actes, spelled A-C-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de acte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how actes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tantôt, devant ce Théâtre-Libre où nous avons fait jouer les Zemgaimo, est-ce qu’il ne m’a pas déclaré qu’il a donné à un autre l’autorisation de théâtrifier ce Charles Demailly, —dont nous avons déjà fait 2 actes sur 4— et ça sans nous prévenir — lorsque, depuis que je ne l’ai vu, nous aurions fort bien pu finir la pièce sans être avertis.
Dans la perspective de la théorie des actes de langage, le temps d’un verbe, la force illocutoire des lexèmes en termes de charge sémantique et des déictiques éventuels co-indiquent la simultanéité de l’action dans le contexte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acctes
- acets
- actess
- actse
- acttes
- atces
- cates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of actes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).