copeaux
\kɔ.po\
The verdict
“copeaux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,960. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,960
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de copeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-copeaux · copeaux · French
copeaux · rank #34,960 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,960
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH convoitises
Nearest frequency peer: convoitises (-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 « copeaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conviviale
conviviale
65,044 corpus weight
- convoitise
convoitise
65,043 corpus weight
- convoitises
convoitises
65,042 corpus weight
- copeaux
copeaux
65,041 corpus weight
- copropriéta…
copropriétaire
65,040 corpus weight
- cordier
cordier
65,039 corpus weight
What this shows « copeaux » 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 | copeaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ.po\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « copeaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around copeaux (IPA \kɔ.po\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,960 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for copeaux, with forms such as "ccopeaux", "coepaux", and "copaeux". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "coraux", "coteau", "coteaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 copeaux, spelled C-O-P-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de copeau.
- 2Ornements en volutes. (Note : dans ce sens, le mot est toujours au pluriel.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how copeaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’un papier plié il sortit en effet quelques légers copeaux de bois, auxquels adhérait une substance colloïdale, déjà durcie au contact de l’air.
… portant sur des murs est et ouest extradossés d'arcades aveugles plein cintre reposant sur des corbeaux ornés de copeaux, cavets ou billettes ….
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccopeaux
- coepaux
- copaeux
- copeauxx
- copeaxu
- copeuax
- coppeaux
- cpoeaux
- ocpeaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of copeaux - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).