archives
\aʁ.ʃiv\
The verdict
“archives” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,351
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de archive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-archives · archives · French
archives · rank #2,351 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,351
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apprend
Nearest frequency peer: apprend (-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 « archives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vrais
vrais
97,653 corpus weight
- étrangères
étrangères
97,652 corpus weight
- apprend
apprend
97,651 corpus weight
- archives
archives
97,650 corpus weight
- arrêtez
arrêtez
97,649 corpus weight
- bravo
bravo
97,648 corpus weight
What this shows « archives » 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 | archives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ʃiv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « archives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around archives (IPA \aʁ.ʃiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,351 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de archive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for archives, with forms such as "acrhives", "arcchives", and "archhives". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "arrivés", "arches", "actives", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is archives, spelled A-R-C-H-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de archive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrhives
- arcchives
- archhives
- archievs
- archivess
- archivse
- archivves
- archvies
- arcihves
- arhcives
- arrchives
- rachives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of archives - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).