athées
\a.te\
The verdict
“athées” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,925
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de athée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-athees · athées · French
athées · rank #20,925 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,925
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assistés
Nearest frequency peer: assistés (-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 « athées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- architectur…
architecturale
79,079 corpus weight
- artificiell…
artificielles
79,078 corpus weight
- assistés
assistés
79,077 corpus weight
- athées
athées
79,076 corpus weight
- athéisme
athéisme
79,075 corpus weight
- attribut
attribut
79,074 corpus weight
What this shows « athées » 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 | athées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « athées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around athées (IPA \a.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,925 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de athée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for athées, with forms such as "ahtées", "athees", and "atheés". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Athos", "axées", "atomes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is athées, spelled A-T-H-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de athée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how athées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais l’Encyclopédie réclame pour les magistrats le droit d’exterminer les athées, « si contraires au bonheur de l’humanité » ; M. Dommanget rappelle que Mably, théoricien du communisme utopique de la seconde moitié du XVIIIᵉ siècle, « combat l’athéisme et demande une répression extrêmement sévère contre les athées » ; de même Bonneville, qui écrit à la fi…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahtées
- athees
- atheés
- athhées
- athéess
- athése
- atthées
- atéhes
- tahées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of athées - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).