fatales
\fa.tal\
The verdict
“fatales” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,259. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,259
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de fatal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fatales · fatales · French
fatales · rank #33,259 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,259
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH famous
Nearest frequency peer: famous (-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 « fatales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fabriquait
fabriquait
66,745 corpus weight
- fam
fam
66,744 corpus weight
- famous
famous
66,743 corpus weight
- fatales
fatales
66,742 corpus weight
- fausser
fausser
66,741 corpus weight
- fentes
fentes
66,740 corpus weight
What this shows « fatales » 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 | fatales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fa.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fatales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fatales (IPA \fa.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,259 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fatal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fatales, with forms such as "aftales", "faatles", and "fataels". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "finales", "futiles", "fatal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is fatales, spelled F-A-T-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fatal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fatales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses desseins à l’égard de cette enfant, qu’il décrassait, instruisait et formait avec des soins d’autant plus touchants qu’on le croyait incapable de tendresse, furent diversement interprétés par la caqueteuse bourgeoisie de la ville, dont les disettes accréditaient, comme à propos de la naissance de Max et d’Agathe, de fatales erreurs.
Toutes les blondes sont fatales, O.K.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aftales
- faatles
- fataels
- fataless
- fatalles
- fatalse
- fatlaes
- fattales
- ffatales
- ftaales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fatales - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).