extraterrestres
\ɛk.stʁa.tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\
The verdict
“extraterrestres” has 22 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,707
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de extraterrestre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extraterrestres · extraterrestres · French
extraterrestres · rank #17,707 · 22 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,707
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exprimées
Nearest frequency peer: exprimées (-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 « extraterrestres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- escrocs
escrocs
82,297 corpus weight
- espionner
espionner
82,296 corpus weight
- exprimées
exprimées
82,295 corpus weight
- extraterres…
extraterrestres
82,294 corpus weight
- exécutée
exécutée
82,293 corpus weight
- fatalité
fatalité
82,291 corpus weight
What this shows « extraterrestres » 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 | extraterrestres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.stʁa.tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #17,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extraterrestres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around extraterrestres (IPA \ɛk.stʁa.tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,707 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de extraterrestre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for extraterrestres, with forms such as "etxraterrestres", "exrtaterrestres", and "extarterrestres". 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, "extraterrestre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 extraterrestres, spelled E-X-T-R-A-T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de extraterrestre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how extraterrestres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En vérité, on estime qu’à l’échelle du monde des millions de personnes ont été abductées ou ont vécu des rencontres rapprochées et des visites extraterrestres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxraterrestres
- exrtaterrestres
- extarterrestres
- extraetrrestres
- extratererstres
- extraterestres
- extraterresrtes
- extraterresstres
- extraterresters
- extraterrestress
- extraterrestrres
- extraterrestrse
- extraterresttres
- extraterretsres
- extraterrsetres
- extratrerestres
- extratterrestres
- extrraterrestres
- extrtaerrestres
- exttraterrestres
- exxtraterrestres
- xetraterrestres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extraterrestres - 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 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).