candidats
\kɑ̃.di.da\
The verdict
“candidats” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,695. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,695
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de candidat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candidats · candidats · French
candidats · rank #1,695 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,695
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH besoins
Nearest frequency peer: besoins (-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 « candidats »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arts
arts
98,309 corpus weight
- baisse
baisse
98,308 corpus weight
- besoins
besoins
98,307 corpus weight
- candidats
candidats
98,306 corpus weight
- Claude
Claude
98,305 corpus weight
- collège
collège
98,304 corpus weight
What this shows « candidats » 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 | candidats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.di.da\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « candidats »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around candidats (IPA \kɑ̃.di.da\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,695 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de candidat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for candidats, with forms such as "acndidats", "cadnidats", and "canddiats". 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, "candidat", "candidate", "candidates", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is candidats, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de candidat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how candidats appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le duo saintais a terminé en queue de peloton de l’épreuve où les candidats affrontaient le chef Christophe Renou, en fabriquant un gâteau sans moule.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acndidats
- cadnidats
- canddiats
- canddidats
- candiadts
- candidast
- candidatss
- candidatts
- candiddats
- candidtas
- caniddats
- canndidats
- ccandidats
- cnadidats
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of candidats - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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