masculins
\mas.ky.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“masculins” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,196
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-masculins · masculins · French
masculins · rank #12,196 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,196
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH map
Nearest frequency peer: map (-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 « masculins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malédiction
malédiction
87,808 corpus weight
- manœuvres
manœuvres
87,807 corpus weight
- map
map
87,806 corpus weight
- masculins
masculins
87,805 corpus weight
- maternel
maternel
87,804 corpus weight
- mercier
mercier
87,803 corpus weight
What this shows « masculins » 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 | masculins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mas.ky.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « masculins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around masculins (IPA \mas.ky.lɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,196 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for masculins, with forms such as "amsculins", "macsulins", and "mascculins". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "masculin", "masculine", "masculines", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is masculins, spelled M-A-S-C-U-L-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how masculins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par facilité, les marques ont transgenrisé leurs montres, collant un coup de rimmel et de nacre rose sur des modèles historiquement masculins.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amsculins
- macsulins
- mascculins
- mascluins
- mascuilns
- masculinns
- masculinss
- masculisn
- mascullins
- masculnis
- massculins
- masuclins
- mmasculins
- msaculins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of masculins - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).