hélicoptères
\e.li.kɔp.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“hélicoptères” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,980
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hélicoptère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-helicopteres · hélicoptères · French
hélicoptères · rank #12,980 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,980
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hybrides
Nearest frequency peer: hybrides (-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 « hélicoptères »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- helen
helen
87,024 corpus weight
- hostilités
hostilités
87,023 corpus weight
- hybrides
hybrides
87,022 corpus weight
- hélicoptères
hélicoptères
87,021 corpus weight
- illégales
illégales
87,020 corpus weight
- imam
imam
87,019 corpus weight
What this shows « hélicoptères » 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 | hélicoptères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.li.kɔp.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #12,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hélicoptères »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around hélicoptères (IPA \e.li.kɔp.tɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,980 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de hélicoptère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for hélicoptères, with forms such as "helicopteres", "hhélicoptères", and "hléicoptères". 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, "hélicoptère", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 hélicoptères, spelled H-É-L-I-C-O-P-T-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hélicoptère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hélicoptères appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ha ! sardonise Laure. Je me vois très bien aller voir le capitaine Marceau dans son bureau et lui demander poliment : voilà, Capitaine, il me faudrait pour demain matin, deux hélicoptères, un millier d’hommes et une dizaine de brigades cynophiles pour patrouiller sur le territoire de la commune de Loguivy-de-la-Mer…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- helicopteres
- hhélicoptères
- hléicoptères
- héilcoptères
- hélcioptères
- héliccoptères
- hélicopptères
- hélicoptrèes
- hélicopttères
- hélicoptèers
- hélicoptèress
- hélicoptèrres
- hélicoptèrse
- hélicopètres
- hélicotpères
- hélicpotères
- héliocptères
- héllicoptères
- éhlicoptères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hélicoptères - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "hélicoptères", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).