calcaires
\kal.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“calcaires” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,086. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,086
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calcaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calcaires · calcaires · French
calcaires · rank #17,086 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,086
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cake
Nearest frequency peer: cake (-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 « calcaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bienveillant
bienveillant
82,918 corpus weight
- biscuit
biscuit
82,917 corpus weight
- cake
cake
82,916 corpus weight
- calcaires
calcaires
82,915 corpus weight
- capitalisat…
capitalisation
82,914 corpus weight
- casseroles
casseroles
82,913 corpus weight
What this shows « calcaires » 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 | calcaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kal.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calcaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around calcaires (IPA \kal.kɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,086 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de calcaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for calcaires, with forms such as "aclcaires", "caclaires", and "calacires". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "claires", "calvaire", "calcaire", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is calcaires, spelled C-A-L-C-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calcaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calcaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y sont particulièrement choyées, car rares, ses pelouses calcaires, ses mares temporaires de type méditerranéen, ainsi que ses aulnaies et frênaies alluviales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclcaires
- caclaires
- calacires
- calcaiers
- calcairess
- calcairres
- calcairse
- calcaries
- calccaires
- calciares
- callcaires
- ccalcaires
- clacaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calcaires - 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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