artifices
\aʁ.ti.fis\
The verdict
“artifices” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,532
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de artifice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artifices · artifices · French
artifices · rank #21,532 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,532
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH archéologue
Nearest frequency peer: archéologue (-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 « artifices »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apportait
apportait
78,472 corpus weight
- approvision…
approvisionner
78,471 corpus weight
- archéologue
archéologue
78,470 corpus weight
- artifices
artifices
78,469 corpus weight
- assistent
assistent
78,468 corpus weight
- astronomiqu…
astronomiques
78,467 corpus weight
What this shows « artifices » 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 | artifices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.ti.fis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « artifices »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around artifices (IPA \aʁ.ti.fis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,532 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de artifice.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for artifices, with forms such as "aritfices", "arrtifices", and "artfiices". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "artificiel", "artificiels", "artifice", 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 artifices, spelled A-R-T-I-F-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de artifice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how artifices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me garderai bien de dire que son ouvrage n’est qu’un recueil de petits artifices philosophiques un peu grécisés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aritfices
- arrtifices
- artfiices
- artifcies
- artiffices
- artificces
- artificess
- artificse
- artifiecs
- artiifces
- arttifices
- atrifices
- ratifices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of artifices - 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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