cétacés
\se.ta.se\
The verdict
“cétacés” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,456
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cétacé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cetaces · cétacés · French
cétacés · rank #35,456 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,456
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cupcakes
Nearest frequency peer: cupcakes (-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 « cétacés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croupe
croupe
64,548 corpus weight
- cumulée
cumulée
64,547 corpus weight
- cupcakes
cupcakes
64,546 corpus weight
- cétacés
cétacés
64,545 corpus weight
- dear
dear
64,544 corpus weight
- dello
dello
64,543 corpus weight
What this shows « cétacés » 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 | cétacés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ta.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cétacés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around cétacés (IPA \se.ta.se\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,456 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cétacé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for cétacés, with forms such as "ccétacés", "cetaces", and "ctéacés". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "crétacé", "cutanés", "cépages", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cétacés, spelled C-É-T-A-C-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cétacé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccétacés
- cetaces
- ctéacés
- céatcés
- cétaccés
- cétacsé
- cétacéss
- cétaécs
- cétcaés
- céttacés
- éctacés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cétacés - 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 "cétacés", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).