difficultés
\di.fi.kyl.te\
The verdict
“difficultés” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,911. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,911
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de difficulté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-difficultes · difficultés · French
difficultés · rank #1,911 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,911
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devraient
Nearest frequency peer: devraient (-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 « difficultés »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croix
croix
98,093 corpus weight
- description
description
98,092 corpus weight
- devraient
devraient
98,091 corpus weight
- difficultés
difficultés
98,090 corpus weight
- dure
dure
98,089 corpus weight
- efficace
efficace
98,087 corpus weight
What this shows « difficultés » 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 | difficultés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.fi.kyl.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « difficultés »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around difficultés (IPA \di.fi.kyl.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,911 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de difficulté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for difficultés, with forms such as "ddifficultés", "dfificultés", and "diffciultés". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "difficulté", "difficiles", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is difficultés, spelled D-I-F-F-I-C-U-L-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de difficulté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how difficultés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ambition des promoteurs des MMA de sportiviser leur pratique se heurte à deux grandes difficultés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddifficultés
- dfificultés
- diffciultés
- difficcultés
- difficlutés
- difficulltés
- difficultes
- difficultsé
- difficulttés
- difficultéss
- difficuléts
- difficutlés
- diffiucltés
- dificultés
- dififcultés
- idfficultés
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of difficultés - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "difficultés", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).