caractérisées
\ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze\
The verdict
“caractérisées” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,872
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de caractérisé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracterisees · caractérisées · French
caractérisées · rank #31,872 · 20 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,872
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH capricieuse
Nearest frequency peer: capricieuse (-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 « caractérisées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caméraman
caméraman
68,132 corpus weight
- canonisation
canonisation
68,131 corpus weight
- capricieuse
capricieuse
68,130 corpus weight
- caractérisé…
caractérisées
68,129 corpus weight
- carcasses
carcasses
68,128 corpus weight
- Cassidy
Cassidy
68,127 corpus weight
What this shows « caractérisées » 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 | caractérisées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #31,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caractérisées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around caractérisées (IPA \ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,872 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de caractérisé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for caractérisées, with forms such as "acractérisées", "caarctérisées", and "caracctérisées". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "caractériser", "caractérisés", "caractérisent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is caractérisées, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-S-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de caractérisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caractérisées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le procureur de la République de Cahors, Alexandre Rossi, a relevé « plusieurs fautes caractérisées », et a requis dix-huit mois d'emprisonnement, dont douze avec sursis, contre le directeur de battue, ainsi qu’une interdiction définitive de chasser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acractérisées
- caarctérisées
- caracctérisées
- caracterisees
- caractréisées
- caracttérisées
- caractéirsées
- caractériseés
- caractérissées
- caractériséess
- caractérisése
- caractériéses
- caractérrisées
- caractérsiées
- caracétrisées
- caratcérisées
- carcatérisées
- carractérisées
- ccaractérisées
- craactérisées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caractérisées - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caractérisées", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).