diables
\djɑbl\
The verdict
“diables” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,351
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de diable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diables · diables · French
diables · rank #15,351 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,351
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dessein
Nearest frequency peer: dessein (-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 « diables »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couette
couette
84,653 corpus weight
- Denver
Denver
84,652 corpus weight
- dessein
dessein
84,651 corpus weight
- diables
diables
84,650 corpus weight
- différend
différend
84,649 corpus weight
- diplômée
diplômée
84,648 corpus weight
What this shows « diables » 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 | diables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \djɑbl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diables »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around diables (IPA \djɑbl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,351 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de diable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for diables, with forms such as "daibles", "ddiables", and "diabbles". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "diablo", "doublés", "diacres", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 diables, spelled D-I-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de diable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diables appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça y est, p'tit frère, cette fois-ci c'est pour de vrai… Fini la chasse aux pintades ! Mais pas de panique, hein, et attends bien les ordres avant de tirer, il faut que ces diables rouges soient suffisamment près. Une fois que ça sera parti, ça va être le festival de la gâchette. Tu tires, tu recharges, tu tires, etc. On va se faire un carton !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- daibles
- ddiables
- diabbles
- diabels
- diabless
- diablles
- diablse
- dialbes
- dibales
- idables
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diables - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).