épaisses
\e.pɛs\
The verdict
“épaisses” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,516
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de épais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epaisses · épaisses · French
épaisses · rank #21,516 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,516
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH énigmatique
Nearest frequency peer: énigmatique (-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 « épaisses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- élabore
élabore
78,488 corpus weight
- émérite
émérite
78,487 corpus weight
- énigmatique
énigmatique
78,486 corpus weight
- épaisses
épaisses
78,485 corpus weight
- épilepsie
épilepsie
78,484 corpus weight
- érotiques
érotiques
78,483 corpus weight
What this shows « épaisses » 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 | épaisses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.pɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « épaisses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around épaisses (IPA \e.pɛs\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,516 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de épais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for épaisses, with forms such as "epaisses", "péaisses", and "éapisses". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "éparses", "épuisées", "épaisseur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is épaisses, spelled É-P-A-I-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de épais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épaisses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pailles, dont les couches épaisses recouvraient entièrement le sol de la cour, se doraient peu à peu d’un jaune pâle sous la lueur grandissante du crépuscule.
La cartographie du sonar montre que le piège mortel du triangle des Bermudes est entouré de récifs très acérés, formés par l’accumulation d’algues et de coquilles de millions de minuscules mollusques et d’épaisses couches de calcaires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epaisses
- péaisses
- éapisses
- épaisess
- épaissess
- épaissse
- épasises
- épiasses
- éppaisses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of épaisses - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "épaisses", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).