délicates
\de.li.kat\
The verdict
“délicates” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,182
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de délicat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delicates · délicates · French
délicates · rank #18,182 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,182
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décédés
Nearest frequency peer: décédés (-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 « délicates »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- décorée
décorée
81,822 corpus weight
- décédés
décédés
81,820 corpus weight
- délicates
délicates
81,819 corpus weight
- démence
démence
81,818 corpus weight
- ecclésiasti…
ecclésiastiques
81,817 corpus weight
- Edmonton
Edmonton
81,816 corpus weight
What this shows « délicates » 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 | délicates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.li.kat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « délicates »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around délicates (IPA \de.li.kat\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,182 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de délicat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for délicates, with forms such as "ddélicates", "delicates", and "dléicates". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "délices", "délicats", "délirantes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is délicates, spelled D-É-L-I-C-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de délicat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délicates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout le marbre blanc régnait. De la pierre marmoréenne émanait une douce clarté que les délicates nervures noires qui la parcouraient ne suffisaient pas à affaiblir.
Je la détachai du téton en silicone, faisant apparaître une bulle de lait au coin des lèvres délicates, et l’inclinai pour son rototo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddélicates
- delicates
- dléicates
- déilcates
- délciates
- déliactes
- délicaets
- délicatess
- délicatse
- délicattes
- déliccates
- délictaes
- déllicates
- édlicates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of délicates - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).