épouses
\e.puz\
The verdict
“épouses” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,832
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de épouse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epouses · épouses · French
épouses · rank #14,832 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,832
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épingle
Nearest frequency peer: épingle (-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 « épouses »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- émises
émises
85,172 corpus weight
- éoliennes
éoliennes
85,171 corpus weight
- épingle
épingle
85,170 corpus weight
- épouses
épouses
85,169 corpus weight
- éveil
éveil
85,167 corpus weight
- éveillé
éveillé
85,166 corpus weight
What this shows « épouses » 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 | épouses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.puz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « épouses »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around épouses (IPA \e.puz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,832 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de épouse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for épouses, with forms such as "epouses", "péouses", and "éopuses". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "excuses", "épouse", "épousa", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is épouses, spelled É-P-O-U-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de épouse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how épouses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elles sont élevées pour devenir de bonnes épouses, recevant des dînettes et des minicuisines comme cadeaux de Noël, de faux aspirateurs ou fers à repasser, des poussettes et des poupons.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epouses
- péouses
- éopuses
- éposues
- épouess
- épousess
- épousses
- éppouses
- épuoses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of épouses - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).