candidates
\kɑ̃.di.dat\
The verdict
“candidates” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,951
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de candidate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candidates · candidates · French
candidates · rank #18,951 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,951
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cambriolage
Nearest frequency peer: cambriolage (-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 « candidates »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bresse
Bresse
81,053 corpus weight
- bunker
bunker
81,052 corpus weight
- cambriolage
cambriolage
81,051 corpus weight
- candidates
candidates
81,050 corpus weight
- caractériser
caractériser
81,049 corpus weight
- catégorique
catégorique
81,048 corpus weight
What this shows « candidates » 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 | candidates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.di.dat\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « candidates »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around candidates (IPA \kɑ̃.di.dat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,951 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de candidate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for candidates, with forms such as "acndidates", "cadnidates", and "canddiates". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "candidats", "candidatures", "candidat", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is candidates, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de candidate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how candidates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Délicieux souvenirs de meetings aux salles combles, de discours émouvants de nos candidates novices (beaucoup s’exprimaient pour la première fois en public), du succès particulier auprès des médias étrangers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acndidates
- cadnidates
- canddiates
- canddidates
- candiadtes
- candidaets
- candidatess
- candidatse
- candidattes
- candiddates
- candidtaes
- caniddates
- canndidates
- ccandidates
- cnadidates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of candidates - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).