caractères
\ka.ʁak.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“caractères” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,315
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caractère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracteres · caractères · French
caractères · rank #4,315 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,315
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH box
Nearest frequency peer: box (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “caractères”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bite
bite
95,689 corpus weight
- bonsoir
bonsoir
95,688 corpus weight
- box
box
95,687 corpus weight
- caractères
caractères
95,686 corpus weight
- CD
CD
95,685 corpus weight
- chrétienne
chrétienne
95,684 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “caractères” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | caractères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “caractères” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around caractères (IPA \ka.ʁak.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,315 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de caractère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for caractères, with forms such as "acractères", "caarctères", and "caracctères". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cratères", "caractérise", "caractérisés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is caractères, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caractère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caractères appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ajoutons ici que l’alphabet zend est composé de quarante-huit caractères, dont trente-deux consonnes et seize voyelles, nombre presque égal à celui des lettres qui composent l’alphabet dêvanâgary, qui a seize voyelles et trente-quatre consonnes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acractères
- caarctères
- caracctères
- caracteres
- caractrèes
- caracttères
- caractèers
- caractèress
- caractèrres
- caractèrse
- caracètres
- caratcères
- carcatères
- carractères
- ccaractères
- craactères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caractères - 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 "caractères", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (16 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "caractères". Here's where to go from here.
- "caractères" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "cratères". View pair
- 16 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,315 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "C" letter cohort. C–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.