échecs
\e.ʃɛk\
The verdict
“échecs” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,573. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,573
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de stratégie millénaire opposant deux joueurs qui disposent chacun de seize pièces pour paralyser le roi adverse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-echecs · échecs · French
échecs · rank #6,573 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,573
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH violation
Nearest frequency peer: violation (-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 « échecs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- télécharger
télécharger
93,431 corpus weight
- variétés
variétés
93,430 corpus weight
- violation
violation
93,429 corpus weight
- échecs
échecs
93,428 corpus weight
- éditeurs
éditeurs
93,427 corpus weight
- élevées
élevées
93,426 corpus weight
What this shows « échecs » 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 | échecs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʃɛk\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « échecs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around échecs (IPA \e.ʃɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,573 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Jeu de stratégie millénaire opposant deux joueurs qui disposent chacun de seize pièces pour paralyser le roi adverse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for échecs, with forms such as "céhecs", "echecs", and "écchecs". 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, "échos", "échec", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is échecs, spelled É-C-H-E-C-S.
Definition
- 1Jeu de stratégie millénaire opposant deux joueurs qui disposent chacun de seize pièces pour paralyser le roi adverse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how échecs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au second été, Ardengo Baldi vint nous rejoindre ; c’est alors qu’il m’apprit les échecs. Rompu par Heldenbruck aux calculs de tête, je pris assez vite l’habitude de jouer sans regarder l’échiquier.
Plus loin ce sont les jeux tranquilles : échecs, dames et quantité de jeux d’adresse ou de patience, dont certains que je ne connaissait pas, extrêmement ingénieux ; […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céhecs
- echecs
- écchecs
- écehcs
- échces
- écheccs
- échecss
- échesc
- échhecs
- éhcecs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of échecs - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).