calculs
\kal.kyl\
The verdict
“calculs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,168. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,168
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calcul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calculs · calculs · French
calculs · rank #6,168 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,168
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH arrivant
Nearest frequency peer: arrivant (-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 « calculs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- approcher
approcher
93,836 corpus weight
- are
are
93,835 corpus weight
- arrivant
arrivant
93,834 corpus weight
- calculs
calculs
93,833 corpus weight
- championnats
championnats
93,832 corpus weight
- cherchant
cherchant
93,831 corpus weight
What this shows « calculs » 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 | calculs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kal.kyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calculs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around calculs (IPA \kal.kyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,168 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de calcul.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calculs, with forms such as "aclculs", "cacluls", and "calcculs". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "caucus", "calcule", "calculer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is calculs, spelled C-A-L-C-U-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calcul.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calculs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand César se retourna pour dire à sa femme : — Eh bien ! que veux-tu, Constance ? son air, comme celui des hommes distraits par des calculs, fut si exorbitamment niais, que madame Birotteau se mit à rire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclculs
- cacluls
- calcculs
- calclus
- calculls
- calculss
- calcusl
- callculs
- calucls
- ccalculs
- claculs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calculs - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "calculs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).