limaces
\li.mas\
The verdict
“limaces” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,580. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,580
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de limace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-limaces · limaces · French
limaces · rank #35,580 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,580
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lingua
Nearest frequency peer: lingua (+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 « limaces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lectrices
lectrices
64,426 corpus weight
- Lennox
Lennox
64,425 corpus weight
- limaces
limaces
64,421 corpus weight
- lingua
lingua
64,420 corpus weight
- livrait
livrait
64,419 corpus weight
- Lukaku
Lukaku
64,417 corpus weight
What this shows « limaces » 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 | limaces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.mas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « limaces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around limaces (IPA \li.mas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,580 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de limace.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for limaces, with forms such as "ilmaces", "liamces", and "limacces". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "limes", "limbes", "limites", 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 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 limaces, spelled L-I-M-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de limace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how limaces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la penderie de ma chambre, ma bonne valise était prête, comme toujours, avec les trois costards, les six limaces, et le toutim; le petit nécessaire de l’homme en cavale, et puis, en dessous, deux bonnes briques en talbins de dix mille, tout neufs, que j’avais été le jour même retirer de mon coffre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilmaces
- liamces
- limacces
- limacess
- limacse
- limaecs
- limcaes
- limmaces
- llimaces
- lmiaces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of limaces - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).