espèces
\ɛs.pɛs\
The verdict
“espèces” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,864
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de espèce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-especes · espèces · French
espèces · rank #1,864 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,864
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eaux
Nearest frequency peer: eaux (-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 « espèces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dormir
dormir
98,140 corpus weight
- eaux
eaux
98,138 corpus weight
- espèces
espèces
98,137 corpus weight
- excellent
excellent
98,136 corpus weight
- ferait
ferait
98,135 corpus weight
- foutre
foutre
98,134 corpus weight
What this shows « espèces » 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 | espèces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.pɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espèces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around espèces (IPA \ɛs.pɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,864 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de espèce.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for espèces, with forms such as "epsèces", "espcèes", and "especes". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "espère", "espérer", "espérez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 espèces, spelled E-S-P-È-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de espèce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how espèces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans tous les cas il s’agit d’une botanique appliquée, telle que la malherbologie ou la connaissance des espèces fourragères, de grandes cultures ou de boisements.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsèces
- espcèes
- especes
- esppèces
- espècces
- espècess
- espècse
- espèecs
- esspèces
- esèpces
- sepèces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espèces - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).