dinosaures
\di.nɔ.zɔʁ\
The verdict
“dinosaures” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,010. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,010
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dinosaure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dinosaures · dinosaures · French
dinosaures · rank #14,010 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,010
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dimitri
Nearest frequency peer: Dimitri (-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 « dinosaures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- derek
derek
85,994 corpus weight
- devrai
devrai
85,993 corpus weight
- Dimitri
Dimitri
85,992 corpus weight
- dinosaures
dinosaures
85,991 corpus weight
- dirigées
dirigées
85,990 corpus weight
- dissimuler
dissimuler
85,989 corpus weight
What this shows « dinosaures » 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 | dinosaures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.nɔ.zɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dinosaures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around dinosaures (IPA \di.nɔ.zɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,010 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de dinosaure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dinosaures, with forms such as "ddinosaures", "dinnosaures", and "dinoasures". 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, "dinosaure", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dinosaures, spelled D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dinosaure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dinosaures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, s’interroge la journaliste suédoise Torill Kornfeldt dans The Re-Origin of Species, son livre sur la course en avant pour « dés-éteindre » des créatures comme les dinosaures ou les mammouths laineux : « Pourquoi la nature telle qu’elle existe aujourd’hui devrait être plus précieuse que celle d’il y a 10 000 ans ou que les espèces qui existeront d’i…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddinosaures
- dinnosaures
- dinoasures
- dinosarues
- dinosauers
- dinosauress
- dinosaurres
- dinosaurse
- dinossaures
- dinosuares
- dinsoaures
- dionsaures
- dniosaures
- idnosaures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dinosaures - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).