candidatures
\kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ\
The verdict
“candidatures” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,464
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de candidature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-candidatures · candidatures · French
candidatures · rank #10,464 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,464
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH brutal
Nearest frequency peer: brutal (-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 « candidatures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bouygues
Bouygues
89,540 corpus weight
- brin
brin
89,539 corpus weight
- brutal
brutal
89,538 corpus weight
- candidatures
candidatures
89,537 corpus weight
- cape
cape
89,536 corpus weight
- causés
causés
89,535 corpus weight
What this shows « candidatures » 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 | candidatures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #10,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « candidatures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around candidatures (IPA \kɑ̃.di.da.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,464 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de candidature.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for candidatures, with forms such as "acndidatures", "cadnidatures", and "canddiatures". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "candidates", "candidature", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 candidatures, spelled C-A-N-D-I-D-A-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de candidature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how candidatures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’avait-il pas eu l’impudence à plusieurs reprises de se montrer favorable à des candidatures républicaines à la Chambre ou au Sénat, avec le scandaleux espoir, disait-on, de « déchouaniser » la Mayenne ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acndidatures
- cadnidatures
- canddiatures
- canddidatures
- candiadtures
- candidatrues
- candidattures
- candidatuers
- candidaturess
- candidaturres
- candidaturse
- candidautres
- candiddatures
- candidtaures
- caniddatures
- canndidatures
- ccandidatures
- cnadidatures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of candidatures - 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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