catastrophes
\ka.tas.tʁɔf\
The verdict
“catastrophes” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,924. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,924
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de catastrophe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-catastrophes · catastrophes · French
catastrophes · rank #11,924 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,924
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH caserne
Nearest frequency peer: caserne (-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 « catastrophes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bénéficiaire
bénéficiaire
88,080 corpus weight
- cailloux
cailloux
88,079 corpus weight
- caserne
caserne
88,078 corpus weight
- catastrophes
catastrophes
88,077 corpus weight
- cercueil
cercueil
88,076 corpus weight
- changeant
changeant
88,075 corpus weight
What this shows « catastrophes » 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 | catastrophes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.tas.tʁɔf\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #11,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « catastrophes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around catastrophes (IPA \ka.tas.tʁɔf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,924 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de catastrophe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for catastrophes, with forms such as "actastrophes", "caatstrophes", and "catasrtophes". 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, "catastrophe", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is catastrophes, spelled C-A-T-A-S-T-R-O-P-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de catastrophe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how catastrophes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La période qui s’étend entre le débarquement japonais à l’embouchure du Wang-poo et le bombardement de Nagasaki fut pour la Chine particulièrement fertile en catastrophes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- actastrophes
- caatstrophes
- catasrtophes
- catasstrophes
- catastorphes
- catastrohpes
- catastropehs
- catastrophess
- catastrophhes
- catastrophse
- catastropphes
- catastrpohes
- catastrrophes
- catasttrophes
- catatsrophes
- catsatrophes
- cattastrophes
- ccatastrophes
- ctaastrophes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of catastrophes - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).