connaissances
\kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“connaissances” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,816
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de connaissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-connaissances · connaissances · French
connaissances · rank #2,816 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #2,816
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH communautés
Nearest frequency peer: communautés (-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 « connaissances »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cinquième
cinquième
97,188 corpus weight
- circonstanc…
circonstances
97,187 corpus weight
- communautés
communautés
97,186 corpus weight
- connaissanc…
connaissances
97,185 corpus weight
- conserver
conserver
97,184 corpus weight
- deviennent
deviennent
97,183 corpus weight
What this shows « connaissances » 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 | connaissances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #2,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « connaissances »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around connaissances (IPA \kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,816 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de connaissance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for connaissances, with forms such as "cconnaissances", "cnonaissances", and "conaissances". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "connaissance", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 connaissances, spelled C-O-N-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de connaissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how connaissances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons donc besoin de disposer de l’arbre entier des connaissances, où les liaisons verticales fournissent précisément les articulations nécessaires, et permettent finalement de resensorialiser les concepts.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconnaissances
- cnonaissances
- conaissances
- conanissances
- connaisances
- connaisasnces
- connaissacnes
- connaissancces
- connaissancess
- connaissancse
- connaissanecs
- connaissannces
- connaissnaces
- connasisances
- conniassances
- ocnnaissances
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of connaissances - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).