difficiles
\di.fi.sil\
The verdict
“difficiles” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,133
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de difficile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-difficiles · difficiles · French
difficiles · rank #3,133 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,133
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH culturelle
Nearest frequency peer: culturelle (-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 « difficiles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couvert
couvert
96,871 corpus weight
- culte
culte
96,870 corpus weight
- culturelle
culturelle
96,869 corpus weight
- difficiles
difficiles
96,868 corpus weight
- digne
digne
96,867 corpus weight
- disparition
disparition
96,866 corpus weight
What this shows « difficiles » 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 | difficiles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.fi.sil\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « difficiles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around difficiles (IPA \di.fi.sil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,133 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de difficile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for difficiles, with forms such as "ddifficiles", "dfificiles", and "diffciiles". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "difficultés", "difficile", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 difficiles, spelled D-I-F-F-I-C-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de difficile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how difficiles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous nous arrêtons dans ces citations si incomplètes, si difficiles à faire comprendre sans la musique et sans la poésie des lieux et des hasards, qui font que tel ou tel de ces chants populaires se grave ineffaçablement dans l'esprit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddifficiles
- dfificiles
- diffciiles
- difficciles
- difficiels
- difficiless
- difficilles
- difficilse
- difficlies
- diffiicles
- dificiles
- dififciles
- idfficiles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of difficiles - 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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