arcades
\aʁ.kad\
The verdict
“arcades” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,355
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de arcade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arcades · arcades · French
arcades · rank #20,355 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,355
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arbustes
Nearest frequency peer: arbustes (-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 « arcades »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- APR
APR
79,649 corpus weight
- arabo
arabo
79,648 corpus weight
- arbustes
arbustes
79,647 corpus weight
- arcades
arcades
79,646 corpus weight
- Ariège
Ariège
79,645 corpus weight
- armoiries
armoiries
79,644 corpus weight
What this shows « arcades » 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 | arcades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.kad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « arcades »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around arcades (IPA \aʁ.kad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,355 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de arcade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for arcades, with forms such as "acrades", "aracdes", and "arcaddes". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "arides", "arches", "arcanes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is arcades, spelled A-R-C-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de arcade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arcades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce ne sont que des rochers à pic contre lesquels la mer se brise avec fureur : les vents et les vagues les ont façonnés en pyramides, en tours, en cavernes, en arcades; d’innombrables oiseaux de mer animent le paysage.
Et partout des portes, des passages couverts, des arcades ciselées, des venelles, des fenêtres qui donnaient d’une rue haute vers une rue plus basse, avec des marches et des recoins où trônaient des autels de pierre noire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrades
- aracdes
- arcaddes
- arcadess
- arcadse
- arcaeds
- arccades
- arcdaes
- arrcades
- racades
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arcades - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).