espacées

\ɛs.pa.se\

/\ɛs.pa.se\/ adj

The verdict

“espacées” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,321
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de espacé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-espacees · espacées · French

espacées · rank #37,321 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,321
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH ernie

Nearest frequency peer: ernie (-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 « espacées »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « espacées » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

espacées vs espèces
75% similar
espacées vs espaces
88% similar
espacées vs espace
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for espacées
PropertyValue
Headwordespacées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛs.pa.se\
Letters8
Frequency rank#37,321
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espacées »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).espacéesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ernie » (#37,320), « envisageables » (#37,319), « exclusions » (#37,325). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « espacées » est au #37,321. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around espacées (IPA \ɛs.pa.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,321 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de espacé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for espacées, with forms such as "epsacées", "esapcées", and "espaccées". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "espèces", "espaces", "espace", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 espacées, spelled E-S-P-A-C-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de espacé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how espacées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À ce moment, la pluie se mit à tomber avec une vigueur tropicale, en grosses gouttes espacées et rebondissantes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epsacées
  • esapcées
  • espaccées
  • espacees
  • espaceés
  • espacéess
  • espacése
  • espaéces
  • espcaées
  • esppacées
  • esspacées
  • sepacées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espacées - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

epsacées2esapcées2espaccées1espacees1espaceés2espacéess1espacése2espaéces2
Edit distance from "espacées"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "espacées"?
"espacées" is spelled E-S-P-A-C-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛs.pa.se\.
What does "espacées" mean?
As an adjective, "espacées" means: Féminin pluriel de espacé.
What words are commonly confused with "espacées"?
"espacées" is commonly confused with "espèces", "espaces", "espace". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "espacées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "espacées" is \ɛs.pa.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "espacées" come from?
"espacées" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "espacées", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list