adultes

\a.dylt\

/\a.dylt\/ adj

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The verdict

“adultes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,977
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de adulte.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adultes · adultes · French

adultes · rank #2,977 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,977
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH achète

Nearest frequency peer: achète (-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 « adultes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « adultes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

adultes vs ajustés
57% similar
adultes vs adult
71% similar
adultes vs adulé
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for adultes
PropertyValue
Headwordadultes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.dylt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,977
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adultes »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.adultesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « achète » (#2,976), « alimentation » (#2,978), « échapper » (#2,975). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adultes » est au #2,977. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around adultes (IPA \a.dylt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,977 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de adulte.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for adultes, with forms such as "addultes", "adlutes", and "adulets". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "ajustés", "adult", "adulé", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is adultes, spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de adulte.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how adultes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les poissons nageurs grands plongeurs enfin, pour rechercher les prédateurs sur les zones fréquentées par des espèces benthiques et par des espèces inféodées à la roche ou aux algues, qui, même adultes, restent de petites tailles : rouquiers, courlazos, blennies, gobies, etc.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addultes
  • adlutes
  • adulets
  • adulltes
  • adultess
  • adultse
  • adulttes
  • adutles
  • audltes
  • daultes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adultes - 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.

addultes1adlutes2adulets2adulltes1adultess1adultse2adulttes1adutles2
Edit distance from "adultes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adultes"?
"adultes" is spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dylt\.
What does "adultes" mean?
As an adjective, "adultes" means: Pluriel de adulte.
What words are commonly confused with "adultes"?
"adultes" is commonly confused with "ajustés", "adult", "adulé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adultes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adultes" is \a.dylt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adultes" come from?
"adultes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adultes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

témoins#2,973traduit#2,971branche#2,985termine#2,967

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

réussite10 variantsdialogue10 variantsrejoint10 variantspubliée10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list