caresses
\ka.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“caresses” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,427. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,427
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de caresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caresses · caresses · French
caresses · rank #18,427 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,427
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH care
Nearest frequency peer: care (-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 « caresses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cambrai
Cambrai
81,576 corpus weight
- care
care
81,575 corpus weight
- caresses
caresses
81,574 corpus weight
- Cathy
Cathy
81,573 corpus weight
- causalité
causalité
81,572 corpus weight
- Chad
Chad
81,571 corpus weight
What this shows « caresses » 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 | caresses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « caresses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around caresses (IPA \ka.ʁɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,427 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de caresse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for caresses, with forms such as "acresses", "caersses", and "caresess". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "casses", "creuses", "crosses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is caresses, spelled C-A-R-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de caresse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how caresses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait, dans les charcuteries, des filles charnues qui traitaient la vie comme une danse; elles honoraient les pâtés de gestes rituels, de caresses douillettes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acresses
- caersses
- caresess
- caressess
- caressse
- carresses
- carseses
- ccaresses
- craesses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caresses - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).