formées
\fɔʁ.me\
The verdict
“formées” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,633. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,633
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin pluriel de former.
Corpus desk
Index FR-formees · formées · French
formées · rank #15,633 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,633
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flottant
Nearest frequency peer: flottant (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “formées”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- firmes
firmes
84,371 corpus weight
- fleuves
fleuves
84,370 corpus weight
- flottant
flottant
84,369 corpus weight
- formées
formées
84,368 corpus weight
- fossile
fossile
84,367 corpus weight
- GB
GB
84,366 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “formées” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | formées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “formées” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around formées (IPA \fɔʁ.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,633 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin pluriel de former.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for formées, with forms such as "fformées", "fomrées", and "formees". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "formes", "former", "fortes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 formées, spelled F-O-R-M-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin pluriel de former.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how formées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, çà et là, des escabelles à trois pieds, formées par des bâtons fichés dans une simple planche de fayard, une huche à pain, une grosse cuiller en bois pour puiser de l’eau, un seau et des poteries pour le lait, un rouet sur la huche, quelques clayons à fromages, des murs noirs, une porte vermoulue ayant une imposte à claire-voie ; tels étaient la déc…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fformées
- fomrées
- formees
- formeés
- formmées
- forméess
- formése
- forrmées
- forémes
- fromées
- ofrmées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of formées - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "formées", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "formées". Here's where to go from here.
- "formées" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "formes". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,633 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "F" letter cohort. F–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.