islands
\ˈaɪ.ləndz\
The verdict
“islands” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,005
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de island.
Corpus desk
Index FR-islands · islands · French
islands · rank #44,005 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,005
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH jalouses
Nearest frequency peer: jalouses (+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 « islands »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- inviolable
inviolable
56,000 corpus weight
- irrespect
irrespect
55,998 corpus weight
- islands
islands
55,996 corpus weight
- jalouses
jalouses
55,995 corpus weight
- Jeanine
Jeanine
55,994 corpus weight
- jia
jia
55,993 corpus weight
What this shows « islands » 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 | islands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈaɪ.ləndz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « islands »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around islands (IPA \ˈaɪ.ləndz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,005 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de island.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for islands, with forms such as "ilsands", "isalnds", and "isladns". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "isolants", "island", "Irlande", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is islands, spelled I-S-L-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de island.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilsands
- isalnds
- isladns
- islandds
- islandss
- islannds
- islansd
- isllands
- islnads
- isslands
- silands
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of islands - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).