calories
\ka.lɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“calories” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,532
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de calorie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-calories · calories · French
calories · rank #11,532 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,532
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH brasserie
Nearest frequency peer: brasserie (-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 « calories »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baignoire
baignoire
88,472 corpus weight
- Bouchard
Bouchard
88,471 corpus weight
- brasserie
brasserie
88,470 corpus weight
- calories
calories
88,469 corpus weight
- capitaliste
capitaliste
88,468 corpus weight
- capteurs
capteurs
88,467 corpus weight
What this shows « calories » 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 | calories |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.lɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « calories »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around calories (IPA \ka.lɔ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,532 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de calorie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calories, with forms such as "aclories", "callories", and "caloires". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "caries", "coloris", "colorés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 calories, spelled C-A-L-O-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de calorie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how calories appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’abord ce sera moins duraille pour Bouton qui se débarbote seule dans les casseroles, les seringues, les calories, les ordonnances, mon silence, ma lutte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclories
- callories
- caloires
- caloreis
- caloriess
- calorise
- calorries
- calroies
- caolries
- ccalories
- claories
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of calories - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).