complex
The verdict
“complex” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,940
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui forme un tout dont les parties interagissent de manière que ce tout soit à la fois plus et autre chose que la somme de ses parties et acquière une unité propre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-complex · complex · French
complex · rank #44,940 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,940
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH compares
Nearest frequency peer: compares (-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 « complex »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- collagène
collagène
55,064 corpus weight
- coloriage
coloriage
55,063 corpus weight
- compares
compares
55,062 corpus weight
- complex
complex
55,061 corpus weight
- concocter
concocter
55,059 corpus weight
- confessionn…
confessionnelle
55,058 corpus weight
What this shows « complex » 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 | complex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « complex »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around complex, anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,940 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ce qui forme un tout dont les parties interagissent de manière que ce tout soit à la fois plus et autre chose que la somme de ses parties et acquière une unité propre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for complex, with forms such as "ccomplex", "cmoplex", and "comlpex". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "compte", "couple", "comptes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 complex, spelled C-O-M-P-L-E-X.
Definition
- 1Ce qui forme un tout dont les parties interagissent de manière que ce tout soit à la fois plus et autre chose que la somme de ses parties et acquière une unité propre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how complex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les atomes sont le tout de la matière : lorsqu'on fait de la conscience une propriété réelle inhérente aux atomes, qu'il s'agisse de tous ou de quelques-uns, on n'évite pas la nécessité d'opter entre un seul atome et leur complex. Si, chez un homme, la conscience est l'attribut d'un seul des atomes qui le constituent, à l'exclusion de tous les autres, enc…
Il [Houston-Stewart Chamberlain] a baptisé « germanique » ce complex de peuples parents dont l'effort va déplacer le centre de gravité culturel et politique de l'Europe : désignant ainsi, par une convention simplificatrice, non seulement les Germains au sens restreint – les Germains de Tacite – mais encore les Celtes et encore les Slaves.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomplex
- cmoplex
- comlpex
- commplex
- compelx
- complexx
- compllex
- complxe
- compplex
- copmlex
- ocmplex
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of complex - 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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Same letter count
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