grottes
\ɡʁɔt\
The verdict
“grottes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,048. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,048
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de grotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grottes · grottes · French
grottes · rank #14,048 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,048
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glissement
Nearest frequency peer: glissement (-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 « grottes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fra
fra
85,956 corpus weight
- Glenn
Glenn
85,955 corpus weight
- glissement
glissement
85,954 corpus weight
- grottes
grottes
85,953 corpus weight
- gâchis
gâchis
85,952 corpus weight
- Hamas
Hamas
85,950 corpus weight
What this shows « grottes » 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 | grottes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « grottes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around grottes (IPA \ɡʁɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,048 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de grotte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for grottes, with forms such as "ggrottes", "gorttes", and "grotes". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "groupes", "grotte", "gratte", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is grottes, spelled G-R-O-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de grotte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggrottes
- gorttes
- grotes
- grotets
- grottess
- grottse
- grrottes
- grtotes
- rgottes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grottes - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).