étincelles
\e.tɛ̃.sɛl\
The verdict
“étincelles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,082. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,082
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de étincelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-etincelles · étincelles · French
étincelles · rank #23,082 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,082
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH électromagnét…
Nearest frequency peer: électromagnétique (-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 « étincelles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écrivais
écrivais
76,923 corpus weight
- écrouler
écrouler
76,922 corpus weight
- élastiques
élastiques
76,921 corpus weight
- électromagn…
électromagnétique
76,920 corpus weight
- étincelles
étincelles
76,919 corpus weight
- étrangler
étrangler
76,917 corpus weight
What this shows « étincelles » 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 | étincelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.tɛ̃.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « étincelles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around étincelles (IPA \e.tɛ̃.sɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,082 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de étincelle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for étincelles, with forms such as "etincelles", "téincelles", and "éitncelles". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "étincelle", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is étincelles, spelled É-T-I-N-C-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de étincelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how étincelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je remontais le cours de la vie de ce rejeton du plus grand des condottieri, en y cherchant les traces de ses malheurs et les causes de cette profonde dégradation physique et morale, qui rendait plus belles encore les étincelles de grandeur et de noblesse ranimées en ce moment.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etincelles
- téincelles
- éitncelles
- éticnelles
- étinccelles
- étincelels
- étinceles
- étincelless
- étincellse
- étincleles
- étineclles
- étinncelles
- étnicelles
- éttincelles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of étincelles - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).