cuirassiers
\kɥi.ʁa.sje\
The verdict
“cuirassiers” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,271
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de cuirassier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cuirassiers · cuirassiers · French
cuirassiers · rank #47,271 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,271
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cuirasse
Nearest frequency peer: cuirasse (-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 « cuirassiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crosses
crosses
52,733 corpus weight
- croustillan…
croustillants
52,732 corpus weight
- cuirasse
cuirasse
52,731 corpus weight
- cuirassiers
cuirassiers
52,730 corpus weight
- cédez
cédez
52,728 corpus weight
- Dantzig
Dantzig
52,727 corpus weight
What this shows « cuirassiers » 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 | cuirassiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɥi.ʁa.sje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #47,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cuirassiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around cuirassiers (IPA \kɥi.ʁa.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,271 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de cuirassier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for cuirassiers, with forms such as "ccuirassiers", "ciurassiers", and "cuiarssiers". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cuirassés", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cuirassiers, spelled C-U-I-R-A-S-S-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de cuirassier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccuirassiers
- ciurassiers
- cuiarssiers
- cuirasiers
- cuirasisers
- cuirasseirs
- cuirassierrs
- cuirassierss
- cuirassiesr
- cuirassires
- cuirrassiers
- cuirsasiers
- curiassiers
- ucirassiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cuirassiers - 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 "cuirassiers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).