espaces
\ɛs.pas\
The verdict
“espaces” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,253
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de espace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espaces · espaces · French
espaces · rank #3,253 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,253
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH envoi
Nearest frequency peer: envoi (-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 « espaces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enregistrem…
enregistrement
96,750 corpus weight
- envoi
envoi
96,749 corpus weight
- espaces
espaces
96,748 corpus weight
- espérer
espérer
96,747 corpus weight
- existent
existent
96,746 corpus weight
- extraordina…
extraordinaire
96,745 corpus weight
What this shows « espaces » 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 | espaces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.pas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espaces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around espaces (IPA \ɛs.pas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,253 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de espace.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for espaces, with forms such as "epsaces", "esapces", and "espacces". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "espèce", "espèces", "essayes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is espaces, spelled E-S-P-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de espace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espaces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je montrerai que certains concepts inventés par des économistes dès les années 1950 et par des statisticiens dans les années 1960 peuvent être remis au goût du jour pour fournir des modèles de systèmes de transition mêlant choix probabiliste et choix non déterministes (démoniaque, angélique, chaotique, … au choix), et ce même dans des espaces à états cont…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsaces
- esapces
- espacces
- espacess
- espacse
- espaecs
- espcaes
- esppaces
- esspaces
- sepaces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espaces - 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).