cathédrales
\ka.te.dʁal\
The verdict
“cathédrales” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,882
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cathédrale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cathedrales · cathédrales · French
cathédrales · rank #21,882 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,882
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH catalyseur
Nearest frequency peer: catalyseur (-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 « cathédrales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- caissière
caissière
78,122 corpus weight
- Caracas
Caracas
78,121 corpus weight
- catalyseur
catalyseur
78,120 corpus weight
- cathédrales
cathédrales
78,119 corpus weight
- chartreuse
chartreuse
78,118 corpus weight
- cheap
cheap
78,117 corpus weight
What this shows « cathédrales » 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 | cathédrales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.te.dʁal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #21,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cathédrales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around cathédrales (IPA \ka.te.dʁal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,882 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cathédrale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for cathédrales, with forms such as "acthédrales", "cahtédrales", and "cathdérales". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cathédrale", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cathédrales, spelled C-A-T-H-É-D-R-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cathédrale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cathédrales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les tailleurs de pierre qui sculptaient les images des cathédrales, il y avait des hommes d’un talent supérieur, qui semblent être demeurés toujours confondus dans la masse des compagnons ; ils ne produisaient pas moins des chefs-d’œuvre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acthédrales
- cahtédrales
- cathdérales
- cathedrales
- cathhédrales
- cathédarles
- cathéddrales
- cathédraels
- cathédraless
- cathédralles
- cathédralse
- cathédrlaes
- cathédrrales
- cathérdales
- catthédrales
- catéhdrales
- ccathédrales
- ctahédrales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cathédrales - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).