appliques
\a.plik\
The verdict
“appliques” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,173
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de applique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appliques · appliques · French
appliques · rank #37,173 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,173
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH animait
Nearest frequency peer: animait (-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 « appliques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- anguilles
anguilles
62,830 corpus weight
- animait
animait
62,829 corpus weight
- appliques
appliques
62,828 corpus weight
- AQMI
AQMI
62,827 corpus weight
- arms
arms
62,826 corpus weight
- arpenter
arpenter
62,825 corpus weight
What this shows « appliques » 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 | appliques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.plik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appliques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around appliques (IPA \a.plik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,173 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de applique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for appliques, with forms such as "apliques", "aplpiques", and "appilques". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "appliquez", "appliquons", "applique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is appliques, spelled A-P-P-L-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de applique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appliques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il semble qu’une autre vie commence et qu’elle se cantonne, là, dans notre tache d’ombre, avec un petit coq arrogant au milieu de ses poules, deux pigeons sur une selle d’Agadès aux appliques de cuir vert et rouge, avec le Corse Scarbonchi — déjà très targuisé, et nous l’aimons comme ça! — El-Ranaffi, astucieux goumier et notre hôte Kinan qui nous observe…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apliques
- aplpiques
- appilques
- appliqeus
- appliqques
- appliquess
- appliquse
- appliuqes
- applliques
- applqiues
- papliques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appliques - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).