cicatrices
\si.ka.tʁis\
The verdict
“cicatrices” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,633. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,633
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cicatrice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cicatrices · cicatrices · French
cicatrices · rank #14,633 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,633
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH châtiment
Nearest frequency peer: châtiment (-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 « cicatrices »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- charpente
charpente
85,371 corpus weight
- chen
chen
85,370 corpus weight
- châtiment
châtiment
85,369 corpus weight
- cicatrices
cicatrices
85,368 corpus weight
- Claudia
Claudia
85,367 corpus weight
- Claudio
Claudio
85,366 corpus weight
What this shows « cicatrices » 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 | cicatrices |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.ka.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cicatrices »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around cicatrices (IPA \si.ka.tʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,633 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cicatrice.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for cicatrices, with forms such as "cciatrices", "ccicatrices", and "ciactrices". 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, "créatrices", "cicatriser", "cicatrice", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cicatrices, spelled C-I-C-A-T-R-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cicatrice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cicatrices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces dignes bêtes formaient une assemblée de sujets plus fidèles que ceux à qui s’adressait alors le roi, tous tachetés de blanc, de brun, de noir, ayant chacun leur physionomie absolument comme les soldats de Napoléon, allumant au moindre bruit leurs prunelles d’un feu qui les faisait ressembler à des diamants ; l’un, venu du Poitou, court de reins, large…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cciatrices
- ccicatrices
- ciactrices
- cicartices
- cicatirces
- cicatrcies
- cicatricces
- cicatricess
- cicatricse
- cicatriecs
- cicatrrices
- cicattrices
- ciccatrices
- cictarices
- iccatrices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cicatrices - 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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