animals
\ˈæn.ə.məlz\
The verdict
“animals” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,653
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-animals · animals · French
animals · rank #37,653 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,653
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animalerie
Nearest frequency peer: animalerie (-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 « animals »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- andouille
andouille
62,351 corpus weight
- anesthésiste
anesthésiste
62,350 corpus weight
- animalerie
animalerie
62,349 corpus weight
- animals
animals
62,348 corpus weight
- annulent
annulent
62,347 corpus weight
- antifasciste
antifasciste
62,346 corpus weight
What this shows « animals » 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 | animals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈæn.ə.məlz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « animals »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around animals (IPA \ˈæn.ə.məlz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,653 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de animal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for animals, with forms such as "ainmals", "aniamls", and "animalls". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "animes", "animaux", "animées", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is animals, spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de animal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ainmals
- aniamls
- animalls
- animalss
- animasl
- animlas
- animmals
- anmials
- annimals
- naimals
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of animals - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).