atroce
\a.tʁɔs\
The verdict
“atroce” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,109. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,109
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noir, sombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atroce · atroce · French
atroce · rank #13,109 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,109
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atlanta
Nearest frequency peer: atlanta (-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 « atroce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assiettes
assiettes
86,895 corpus weight
- assumé
assumé
86,894 corpus weight
- atlanta
atlanta
86,893 corpus weight
- atroce
atroce
86,892 corpus weight
- Bach
Bach
86,891 corpus weight
- baker
baker
86,890 corpus weight
What this shows « atroce » 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 | atroce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.tʁɔs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « atroce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around atroce (IPA \a.tʁɔs\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,109 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for atroce, with forms such as "artoce", "atorce", and "atrcoe". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "aurore", "atroces", "autrice", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is atroce, spelled A-T-R-O-C-E.
Definition
- 1Noir, sombre.
- 2Qui est cruel, sombre, menaçant, en parlant des personnes ou des choses.
- 3Qui est très douloureux au sens physique et au sens moral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how atroce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fait un temps atroce.
Un jour, maigre et sentant un royal appétit, Un singe d’une peau de tigre se vêtit. Le tigre avait été méchant, lui, fut atroce. Il avait endossé le droit d’être féroce.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artoce
- atorce
- atrcoe
- atrocce
- atroec
- atrroce
- attroce
- taroce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of atroce - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).