knights
\naɪts\
The verdict
“knights” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,855. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,855
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de knight.
Corpus desk
Index FR-knights · knights · French
knights · rank #41,855 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #41,855
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH Kemp
Nearest frequency peer: Kemp (-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 « knights »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jonc
jonc
58,151 corpus weight
- João
João
58,150 corpus weight
- Kemp
Kemp
58,147 corpus weight
- knights
knights
58,146 corpus weight
- knows
knows
58,145 corpus weight
- KV
KV
58,142 corpus weight
What this shows « knights » 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 | knights |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \naɪts\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « knights »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around knights (IPA \naɪts\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,855 among 737 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de knight.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for knights, with forms such as "kinghts", "kknights", and "kngihts". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "knight", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is knights, spelled K-N-I-G-H-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de knight.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kinghts
- kknights
- kngihts
- knigghts
- knighhts
- knighst
- knightss
- knightts
- knigths
- knihgts
- knnights
- nkights
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of knights - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).