fractures
\fʁak.tyʁ\
The verdict
“fractures” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,883. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,883
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fracture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fractures · fractures · French
fractures · rank #15,883 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,883
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flots
Nearest frequency peer: flots (-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 « fractures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fiançailles
fiançailles
84,122 corpus weight
- flexible
flexible
84,120 corpus weight
- flots
flots
84,119 corpus weight
- fractures
fractures
84,118 corpus weight
- frissons
frissons
84,116 corpus weight
- fuient
fuient
84,115 corpus weight
What this shows « fractures » 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 | fractures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁak.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fractures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around fractures (IPA \fʁak.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,883 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fracture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for fractures, with forms such as "farctures", "ffractures", and "fracctures". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "facture", "fracture", "facturer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is fractures, spelled F-R-A-C-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fracture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fractures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S. a employé, pour encheviller les fractures de l’avant-bras, un procédé ingénieux qui lui permet d’obtenir un enchevillement précis et solide de l’avant-bras.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- farctures
- ffractures
- fracctures
- fractrues
- fracttures
- fractuers
- fracturess
- fracturres
- fracturse
- fracutres
- fratcures
- frcatures
- frractures
- rfactures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fractures - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).