frégates
\fʁe.ɡat\
The verdict
“frégates” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,566
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de frégate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fregates · frégates · French
frégates · rank #28,566 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,566
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fournissait
Nearest frequency peer: fournissait (-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 « frégates »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- forages
forages
71,438 corpus weight
- Forrest
Forrest
71,437 corpus weight
- fournissait
fournissait
71,436 corpus weight
- frégates
frégates
71,435 corpus weight
- furet
furet
71,434 corpus weight
- fâcheux
fâcheux
71,433 corpus weight
What this shows « frégates » 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 | frégates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁe.ɡat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « frégates »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around frégates (IPA \fʁe.ɡat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,566 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de frégate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for frégates, with forms such as "ffrégates", "fregates", and "frgéates". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "frégate", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is frégates, spelled F-R-É-G-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de frégate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how frégates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à ces trois premières frégates, leur construction est lente, surtout en raison des incertitudes politiques; toutefois, deux d’entre elles existent toujours: la Constitution à Boston et la Constellation à Baltimore.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffrégates
- fregates
- frgéates
- frrégates
- fréagtes
- frégaets
- frégatess
- frégatse
- frégattes
- fréggates
- frégtaes
- férgates
- rfégates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of frégates - 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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).