caractéristiques
\ka.ʁak.te.ʁis.tik\
The verdict
“caractéristiques” has 25 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,662
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 25
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caractéristique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caracteristiques · caractéristiques · French
caractéristiques · rank #2,662 · 25 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #2,662
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 25 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH chevaux
Nearest frequency peer: chevaux (+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 « caractéristiques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aurez
aurez
97,343 corpus weight
- banques
banques
97,342 corpus weight
- billets
billets
97,341 corpus weight
- caractérist…
caractéristiques
97,339 corpus weight
- chevaux
chevaux
97,338 corpus weight
- civil
civil
97,336 corpus weight
What this shows « caractéristiques » 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 | caractéristiques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ʁak.te.ʁis.tik\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #2,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 25 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caractéristiques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 25 spelling variants around caractéristiques (IPA \ka.ʁak.te.ʁis.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,662 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de caractéristique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 25 likely wrong-spelling variants for caractéristiques, with forms such as "acractéristiques", "caarctéristiques", and "caracctéristiques". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "caractéristique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is caractéristiques, spelled C-A-R-A-C-T-É-R-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caractéristique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caractéristiques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ordre des mots, une tournure syntaxique particuliers sont parfois sentis comme caractéristiques d’une langue donnée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acractéristiques
- caarctéristiques
- caracctéristiques
- caracteristiques
- caractréistiques
- caracttéristiques
- caractéirstiques
- caractérisitques
- caractérisstiques
- caractéristiqeus
- caractéristiqques
- caractéristiquess
- caractéristiquse
- caractéristiuqes
- caractéristqiues
- caractéristtiques
- caractéritsiques
- caractérristiques
- caractérsitiques
- caracétristiques
- caratcéristiques
- carcatéristiques
- carractéristiques
- ccaractéristiques
- craactéristiques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caractéristiques - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "caractéristiques", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (25 here; floor ≥5).