innocents
\i.nɔ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“innocents” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,500
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de innocent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-innocents · innocents · French
innocents · rank #9,500 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,500
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inférieurs
Nearest frequency peer: inférieurs (-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 « innocents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- indignation
indignation
90,504 corpus weight
- infirmières
infirmières
90,503 corpus weight
- inférieurs
inférieurs
90,502 corpus weight
- innocents
innocents
90,501 corpus weight
- inondations
inondations
90,500 corpus weight
- interlocute…
interlocuteur
90,499 corpus weight
What this shows « innocents » 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 | innocents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.nɔ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « innocents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around innocents (IPA \i.nɔ.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,500 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de innocent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for innocents, with forms such as "inncoents", "innoccents", and "innocennts". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "innovants", "innocent", "innocence", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 innocents, spelled I-N-N-O-C-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de innocent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how innocents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et le juge signa deux de ces citations formidables qui troublent tout le monde, même les plus innocents témoins que la justice mande ainsi à comparoir sous des peines graves, faute d’obéir.
Quel est le persécuteur ? C’est celui dont l’orgueil blessé et le fanatisme en fureur irritent le prince ou les magistrats contre des hommes innocents, qui n’ont d’autre crime que de n’être pas de son avis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inncoents
- innoccents
- innocennts
- innocenst
- innocentss
- innocentts
- innocetns
- innocnets
- innoecnts
- inocents
- inoncents
- ninocents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of innocents - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).