continues
\kɔ̃.ti.ny\
The verdict
“continues” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,848
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de continue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-continues · continues · French
continues · rank #10,848 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,848
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH continuant
Nearest frequency peer: continuant (-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 « continues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- complicatio…
complications
89,156 corpus weight
- compliment
compliment
89,155 corpus weight
- continuant
continuant
89,154 corpus weight
- continues
continues
89,153 corpus weight
- coutumes
coutumes
89,152 corpus weight
- coéquipier
coéquipier
89,151 corpus weight
What this shows « continues » 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 | continues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ti.ny\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « continues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around continues (IPA \kɔ̃.ti.ny\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,848 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de continue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for continues, with forms such as "ccontinues", "cnotinues", and "conitnues". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "continus", "continuez", "continuum", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is continues, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de continue.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontinues
- cnotinues
- conitnues
- conntinues
- contineus
- continnues
- continuess
- continuse
- contiunes
- contniues
- conttinues
- cotninues
- ocntinues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continues - 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 "continues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).