imbéciles
\ɛ̃.be.sil\
The verdict
“imbéciles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,785. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,785
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de imbécile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-imbeciles · imbéciles · French
imbéciles · rank #11,785 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,785
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH human
Nearest frequency peer: human (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “imbéciles”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- handball
handball
88,219 corpus weight
- hui
hui
88,218 corpus weight
- human
human
88,217 corpus weight
- imbéciles
imbéciles
88,216 corpus weight
- imiter
imiter
88,215 corpus weight
- incompréhen…
incompréhensible
88,213 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “imbéciles” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imbéciles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.be.sil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “imbéciles” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around imbéciles (IPA \ɛ̃.be.sil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,785 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de imbécile.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for imbéciles, with forms such as "ibméciles", "imbbéciles", and "imbcéiles". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is imbéciles, spelled I-M-B-É-C-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de imbécile.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ibméciles
- imbbéciles
- imbcéiles
- imbeciles
- imbécciles
- imbéciels
- imbéciless
- imbécilles
- imbécilse
- imbéclies
- imbéicles
- immbéciles
- imébciles
- mibéciles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of imbéciles - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "imbéciles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).
What to do next
You've looked up "imbéciles". Here's where to go from here.
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #11,785 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "I" letter cohort. I–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.