infidèles
\ɛ̃.fi.dɛl\
The verdict
“infidèles” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,042
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de infidèle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infideles · infidèles · French
infidèles · rank #19,042 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,042
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inconsciemment
Nearest frequency peer: inconsciemment (-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 « infidèles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gîte
gîte
80,962 corpus weight
- homos
homos
80,961 corpus weight
- inconsciemm…
inconsciemment
80,960 corpus weight
- infidèles
infidèles
80,959 corpus weight
- infidélité
infidélité
80,958 corpus weight
- inspirations
inspirations
80,957 corpus weight
What this shows « infidèles » 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 | infidèles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fi.dɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infidèles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around infidèles (IPA \ɛ̃.fi.dɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,042 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de infidèle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for infidèles, with forms such as "ifnidèles", "infdièles", and "inffidèles". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "infidélités", "infidèle", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is infidèles, spelled I-N-F-I-D-È-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de infidèle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how infidèles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais l’opérateur, lui, absorbe les rayons égarés — et ils sont nombreux — tout le jour et tous les jours ; il n’a encore que des moyens bien infidèles de protection : on lui a fait des lunettes, des gants, de grands tabliers où le plomb entre en plus ou moins grande quantité et arrête les rayons au passage, souvent, des fissures se produisent, ou, ces acc…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnidèles
- infdièles
- inffidèles
- infiddèles
- infideles
- infidlèes
- infidèels
- infidèless
- infidèlles
- infidèlse
- infièdles
- inifdèles
- innfidèles
- nifidèles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infidèles - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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