églises
\e.ɡliz\
The verdict
“églises” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,114
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eglises · églises · French
églises · rank #4,114 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,114
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH économies
Nearest frequency peer: économies (-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 « églises »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voyager
voyager
95,890 corpus weight
- William
William
95,889 corpus weight
- économies
économies
95,888 corpus weight
- églises
églises
95,887 corpus weight
- étudié
étudié
95,886 corpus weight
- accidents
accidents
95,885 corpus weight
What this shows « églises » 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 | églises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡliz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « églises »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around églises (IPA \e.ɡliz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,114 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de église.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for églises, with forms such as "eglises", "gélises", and "égglises". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "élise", "élites", "émises", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is églises, spelled É-G-L-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de église.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how églises appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, dans la pensée chrétienne, plusieurs serpent jouent un rôle de grande importance. Dans le cas présent, il nous faudrait bien en trouver un qui eût eu quelque propriété médicinale, et qui été « élevé » et fixé entre ciel et terre, comme les crocodiles des églises ou comme le Dragon, le Cocadrille ou toute autre Grand’Goule, naguère religieusement proce…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eglises
- gélises
- égglises
- égilses
- égliess
- églisess
- églisses
- égllises
- églsies
- élgises
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of églises - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).