controversés
\kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁ.se\
The verdict
“controversés” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,420
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de controversé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-controverses · controversés · French
controversés · rank #31,420 · 20 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,420
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH contraignantes
Nearest frequency peer: contraignantes (-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 « controversés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consternati…
consternation
68,584 corpus weight
- constitutifs
constitutifs
68,583 corpus weight
- contraignan…
contraignantes
68,582 corpus weight
- controversés
controversés
68,581 corpus weight
- converse
converse
68,580 corpus weight
- cormier
cormier
68,579 corpus weight
What this shows « controversés » 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 | controversés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « controversés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around controversés (IPA \kɔ̃.tʁɔ.vɛʁ.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,420 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de controversé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for controversés, with forms such as "ccontroversés", "cnotroversés", and "conntroversés". 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, "controverse", "controversée", "controversées", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is controversés, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-S-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de controversé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how controversés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Très controversés, ces pesticides sont principalement utilisés de manière préventive, en enrobage des semences : lorsque les plantes traitées poussent, tous leurs tissus (feuilles, tiges, pollen, nectar, etc.) s’imprègnent du toxique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontroversés
- cnotroversés
- conntroversés
- conrtoversés
- contorversés
- controevrsés
- controverrsés
- controverses
- controverssé
- controverssés
- controverséss
- controveréss
- controvesrés
- controvresés
- controvversés
- contrroversés
- contrvoersés
- conttroversés
- cotnroversés
- ocntroversés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of controversés - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).