concret
\kɔ̃.kʁɛ\
The verdict
“concret” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,363
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concept distinguant le réel de l’imaginaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-concret · concret · French
concret · rank #8,363 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH comptabilité
Nearest frequency peer: comptabilité (-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 « concret »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commencez
commencez
91,641 corpus weight
- comprenait
comprenait
91,640 corpus weight
- comptabilité
comptabilité
91,639 corpus weight
- concret
concret
91,638 corpus weight
- condamnée
condamnée
91,637 corpus weight
- considérées
considérées
91,636 corpus weight
What this shows « concret » 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 | concret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.kʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « concret »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around concret (IPA \kɔ̃.kʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,363 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for concret, with forms such as "cconcret", "cnocret", and "cocnret". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "contre", "conçue", "conçut", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is concret, spelled C-O-N-C-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Concept distinguant le réel de l’imaginaire.
- 2Résidu solide ou épais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how concret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous allons voir à présent que la distinction entre l’abstrait et le concret que les linguistes cherchent à établir à l’aide de différents critères a une très grande importance dans de nombreux domaines.
M. Laporte dit que l’on abstrait lorsqu’on pense à l’état isolé ce qui n’est point fait pour exister isolément. Le concret, par opposition, est une totalité qui peut exister par soi seule.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconcret
- cnocret
- cocnret
- conccret
- concrett
- concrret
- concrte
- conncret
- conrcet
- ocncret
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of concret - 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 "concret", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).