festivals
\fɛs.ti.val\
The verdict
“festivals” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,961
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de festival.
Corpus desk
Index FR-festivals · festivals · French
festivals · rank #7,961 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,961
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fabricants
Nearest frequency peer: fabricants (-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 « festivals »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ethnique
ethnique
92,042 corpus weight
- fabricants
fabricants
92,041 corpus weight
- festivals
festivals
92,040 corpus weight
- filmer
filmer
92,039 corpus weight
- fonder
fonder
92,038 corpus weight
- fosse
fosse
92,037 corpus weight
What this shows « festivals » 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 | festivals |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛs.ti.val\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « festivals »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around festivals (IPA \fɛs.ti.val\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,961 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de festival.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for festivals, with forms such as "efstivals", "fesitvals", and "fesstivals". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "festives", "festival", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 festivals, spelled F-E-S-T-I-V-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de festival.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how festivals appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Niché en bord de mer et face au phare de Cordouan, l’espace a vu défiler les plus grands festivals saint-palaisiens dont Crescendo, Ouest Riderz Festival ou encore Musique et Gastronomie du Monde.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstivals
- fesitvals
- fesstivals
- festiavls
- festivalls
- festivalss
- festivasl
- festivlas
- festivvals
- festtivals
- festvials
- fetsivals
- ffestivals
- fsetivals
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festivals - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "festivals", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).