banales
\ba.nal\
The verdict
“banales” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,837
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de banal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banales · banales · French
banales · rank #31,837 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,837
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aérer
Nearest frequency peer: aérer (-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 « banales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- axiome
axiome
68,167 corpus weight
- aye
aye
68,166 corpus weight
- aérer
aérer
68,165 corpus weight
- banales
banales
68,164 corpus weight
- banana
banana
68,163 corpus weight
- banditisme
banditisme
68,162 corpus weight
What this shows « banales » 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 | banales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.nal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « banales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around banales (IPA \ba.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,837 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de banal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for banales, with forms such as "abnales", "baanles", and "banaels". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "banane", "bandés", "basale", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 banales, spelled B-A-N-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de banal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how banales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pardonnez-moi ce luxe de logique, si rare chez les personnes de notre sexe ; mais, pour votre honneur et… le mien, dit-elle en s’inclinant, je ne voudrais pas que nous nous trompassions sur notre mérite, ou que vous crussiez mademoiselle de Verneuil, ange ou démon, fille ou femme, capable de se laisser prendre à de banales galanteries.
Après une période d’occupations trop banales à son gré, il forge cette expression, pour signifier la durée de son accablement : "Je n’ai pas déséreinté.”
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnales
- baanles
- banaels
- banaless
- banalles
- banalse
- banlaes
- bannales
- bbanales
- bnaales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banales - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).