formats
\fɔʁ.ma\
The verdict
“formats” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,576
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de format.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formats · formats · French
formats · rank #12,576 · 11 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,576
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondamentalem…
Nearest frequency peer: fondamentalement (-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 « formats »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flagrant
flagrant
87,428 corpus weight
- flamand
flamand
87,427 corpus weight
- fondamental…
fondamentalement
87,426 corpus weight
- formats
formats
87,425 corpus weight
- formulation
formulation
87,424 corpus weight
- fourniture
fourniture
87,423 corpus weight
What this shows « formats » 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 | formats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.ma\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « formats »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around formats (IPA \fɔʁ.ma\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,576 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de format.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for formats, with forms such as "fformats", "fomrats", and "foramts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "forts", "formes", "formées", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 formats, spelled F-O-R-M-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de format.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformats
- fomrats
- foramts
- formast
- formatss
- formatts
- formmats
- formtas
- forrmats
- fromats
- ofrmats
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formats - 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).