curiosités
\ky.ʁjɔ.zi.te\
The verdict
“curiosités” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,902
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de curiosité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curiosites · curiosités · French
curiosités · rank #21,902 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,902
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH culpabiliser
Nearest frequency peer: culpabiliser (-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 « curiosités »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crowdfunding
crowdfunding
78,101 corpus weight
- culpabiliser
culpabiliser
78,100 corpus weight
- curiosités
curiosités
78,099 corpus weight
- cuvée
cuvée
78,098 corpus weight
- côtoient
côtoient
78,097 corpus weight
- Davidson
Davidson
78,096 corpus weight
What this shows « curiosités » 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 | curiosités |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁjɔ.zi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « curiosités »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around curiosités (IPA \ky.ʁjɔ.zi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,902 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de curiosité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for curiosités, with forms such as "ccuriosités", "cruiosités", and "cuirosités". 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, "curiosité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 curiosités, spelled C-U-R-I-O-S-I-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de curiosité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how curiosités appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et qui m’empêcherait, je vous prie, Monsieur Peau-de-chat, de calligraphier, les doigts déjà m’en démangent ! une jolie relation de mon voyage, station par station, dans le goût de ces anciens itinéraires Japonais dont j’ai là des échantillons, de laisser ma mémoire activement et paresseusement débouliner le long d’un chemin peint en jaune à travers toute…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccuriosités
- cruiosités
- cuirosités
- curioistés
- curiosites
- curiositsé
- curiosittés
- curiositéss
- curiosiéts
- curiossités
- curiostiés
- curisoités
- curoisités
- curriosités
- ucriosités
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curiosités - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).