entraves
\ɑ̃.tʁav\
The verdict
“entraves” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,426. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,426
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de entrave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-entraves · entraves · French
entraves · rank #27,426 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Enghien
Nearest frequency peer: Enghien (-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 « entraves »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enchanteur
enchanteur
72,578 corpus weight
- enfoui
enfoui
72,577 corpus weight
- Enghien
Enghien
72,576 corpus weight
- entraves
entraves
72,575 corpus weight
- envisageait
envisageait
72,574 corpus weight
- enzyme
enzyme
72,573 corpus weight
What this shows « entraves » 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 | entraves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.tʁav\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « entraves »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around entraves (IPA \ɑ̃.tʁav\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,426 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de entrave.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for entraves, with forms such as "enntraves", "enrtaves", and "entarves". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "entres", "entrées", "entrevues", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 entraves, spelled E-N-T-R-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de entrave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entraves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malheureusement, non seulement la pompe aspirante, qu’il n’est point question de désalimenter, s’y oppose, mais le Code de commerce y met tant d’entraves, que l’organisation du crédit est chose à peu près impossible.
Ne souffrirez-vous pas enfin des entraves que votre liaison mettra dans la vie de votre amant, et dont vous ne pourrez peut-être pas le consoler, si, avec l’âge, des idées d’ambition succèdent à des rêves d’amour ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enntraves
- enrtaves
- entarves
- entraevs
- entravess
- entravse
- entravves
- entrraves
- entrvaes
- enttraves
- etnraves
- netraves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entraves - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).