ancêtres
\ɑ̃.sɛtʁ\
The verdict
“ancêtres” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,832
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ascendants qui sont plus éloignés que les grands-parents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ancetres · ancêtres · French
ancêtres · rank #5,832 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,832
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alarme
Nearest frequency peer: alarme (-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 « ancêtres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- absurde
absurde
94,172 corpus weight
- adoptée
adoptée
94,171 corpus weight
- alarme
alarme
94,170 corpus weight
- ancêtres
ancêtres
94,169 corpus weight
- Angers
Angers
94,168 corpus weight
- Anthony
Anthony
94,167 corpus weight
What this shows « ancêtres » 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 | ancêtres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.sɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ancêtres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ancêtres (IPA \ɑ̃.sɛtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,832 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ancêtres, with forms such as "acnêtres", "anccêtres", and "ancetres". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ancrés", "ancêtre", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ancêtres, spelled A-N-C-Ê-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ascendants qui sont plus éloignés que les grands-parents.
- 2D'une manière générale, ceux qui nous ont précédé dans une même lignée, une même culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ancêtres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et ce sont ces moribonds nationaux et religieux qui ont entrepris, aux Etats-Unis, d’anglosaxonniser les races et poursuivent la réalisation d’une puissance composite qui n’aurait plus qu’une idole: le dollar, qu’un idéal: l’oubli des ancêtres!
Lucy est l'un des ancêtres de l'homme moderne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnêtres
- anccêtres
- ancetres
- anctêres
- ancêrtes
- ancêters
- ancêtress
- ancêtrres
- ancêtrse
- ancêttres
- anncêtres
- anêctres
- nacêtres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ancêtres - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).