handicapé
^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.di.ka.pe\
The verdict
“handicapé” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,884
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atteint d’un handicap.
Corpus desk
Index FR-handicape · handicapé · French
handicapé · rank #10,884 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,884
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habille
Nearest frequency peer: habille (-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 « handicapé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gravure
gravure
89,120 corpus weight
- Gustave
Gustave
89,119 corpus weight
- habille
habille
89,118 corpus weight
- handicapé
handicapé
89,117 corpus weight
- horizons
horizons
89,115 corpus weight
- how
how
89,114 corpus weight
What this shows « handicapé » 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 | handicapé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.di.ka.pe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « handicapé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around handicapé (IPA ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃.di.ka.pe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,884 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Atteint d’un handicap.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for handicapé, with forms such as "ahndicapé", "hadnicapé", and "handciapé". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "handicaps", "handicapés", "handicapée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is handicapé, spelled H-A-N-D-I-C-A-P-É.
Definition
- 1Atteint d’un handicap.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how handicapé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute personne handicapée a droit à la solidarité de l’ensemble de la collectivité nationale, […].
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahndicapé
- hadnicapé
- handciapé
- handdicapé
- handiacpé
- handicape
- handicappé
- handicaép
- handiccapé
- handicpaé
- hanidcapé
- hanndicapé
- hhandicapé
- hnadicapé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of handicapé - 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).