extrêmes
\ɛks.tʁɛm\
The verdict
“extrêmes” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,295. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,295
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de extrême.
Corpus desk
Index FR-extremes · extrêmes · French
extrêmes · rank #6,295 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,295
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exclusion
Nearest frequency peer: exclusion (-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 « extrêmes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- education
education
93,709 corpus weight
- envoyez
envoyez
93,708 corpus weight
- exclusion
exclusion
93,707 corpus weight
- extrêmes
extrêmes
93,706 corpus weight
- fiable
fiable
93,704 corpus weight
- filtre
filtre
93,703 corpus weight
What this shows « extrêmes » 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 | extrêmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.tʁɛm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extrêmes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around extrêmes (IPA \ɛks.tʁɛm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,295 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de extrême.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for extrêmes, with forms such as "etxrêmes", "exrtêmes", and "extremes". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "extrémités", "entrées", "extreme", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is extrêmes, spelled E-X-T-R-Ê-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de extrême.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how extrêmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les 7 nouvelles travées furent montées à côté des anciennes, et l’on déplaça les 2 ponts en même temps ; il fallut 23 minutes pour déclisser les rails extrêmes, 24 minutes pour riper les 2 ponts et 10 minutes pour faire l’essai au moyen de 2 locomotives.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxrêmes
- exrtêmes
- extremes
- extrmêes
- extrrêmes
- extrêems
- extrêmess
- extrêmmes
- extrêmse
- exttrêmes
- extêrmes
- exxtrêmes
- xetrêmes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extrêmes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).