artifice
\aʁ.ti.fis\
The verdict
“artifice” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,780
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui sert à déguiser, à tromper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artifice · artifice · French
artifice · rank #9,780 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,780
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anxiété
Nearest frequency peer: anxiété (-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 « artifice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affirmant
affirmant
90,224 corpus weight
- Amy
Amy
90,223 corpus weight
- anxiété
anxiété
90,222 corpus weight
- artifice
artifice
90,221 corpus weight
- artificiel
artificiel
90,220 corpus weight
- assemblage
assemblage
90,219 corpus weight
What this shows « artifice » 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 | artifice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ti.fis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « artifice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around artifice (IPA \aʁ.ti.fis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,780 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for artifice, with forms such as "aritfice", "arrtifice", and "artfiice". 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, "artifices", "artificiel", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is artifice, spelled A-R-T-I-F-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qui sert à déguiser, à tromper.
- 2Art, habileté.
- 3Moyen habile d'exprimer une pensée, une idée.
- 4Engin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how artifice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il travaillait à se faire froid, calculateur ; à mettre en manières, en formes aimables, en artifices de séduction, les richesses morales qu'il tenait du hasard.
Ça vous inspire quoi ? demanda-t-elle après quelques minutes […]. Les artifices, reprit-elle, les gadgets sophistiqués, pour une bagnole, ou une moto, ça s'appelle le customing ou le tuning.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aritfice
- arrtifice
- artfiice
- artifcie
- artiffice
- artificce
- artifiec
- artiifce
- arttifice
- atrifice
- ratifice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of artifice - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).