horribles
\ɔ.ʁibl\
The verdict
“horribles” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,393
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de horrible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-horribles · horribles · French
horribles · rank #12,393 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,393
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habit
Nearest frequency peer: habit (-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 « horribles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- génétiques
génétiques
87,611 corpus weight
- Géorgie
Géorgie
87,610 corpus weight
- habit
habit
87,609 corpus weight
- horribles
horribles
87,608 corpus weight
- idéalement
idéalement
87,607 corpus weight
- immatricula…
immatriculation
87,605 corpus weight
What this shows « horribles » 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 | horribles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʁibl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « horribles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around horribles (IPA \ɔ.ʁibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,393 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de horrible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for horribles, with forms such as "hhorribles", "horibles", and "horirbles". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "horrible", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is horribles, spelled H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de horrible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horribles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toujours servi par son étoile, il entre le premier en Alsace, fait la campagne de Salonique, survit à l’épidémie d’entérite qui nettoie sa formation, rapporte Lectures pour une ombre où il trouve moyen de gongoriser avec une grâce raffinée et parfois profonde (c’est l’un de ses meilleurs livres), sur ses horribles souvenirs de fantassin.
Je pense que ça fait partie d’un mécanisme de défense contre ce genre d’actes horribles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorribles
- horibles
- horirbles
- horrbiles
- horribbles
- horribels
- horribless
- horriblles
- horriblse
- horrilbes
- hroribles
- ohrribles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horribles - 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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).