meilleures
\mɛ.jœʁ\
The verdict
“meilleures” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,961
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de meilleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meilleures · meilleures · French
meilleures · rank #1,961 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,961
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maximum
Nearest frequency peer: maximum (-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 « meilleures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- logement
logement
98,042 corpus weight
- maximum
maximum
98,041 corpus weight
- meilleures
meilleures
98,040 corpus weight
- nice
nice
98,039 corpus weight
- piste
piste
98,038 corpus weight
- plage
plage
98,037 corpus weight
What this shows « meilleures » 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 | meilleures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛ.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « meilleures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around meilleures (IPA \mɛ.jœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,961 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de meilleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for meilleures, with forms such as "emilleures", "meilelures", and "meileures". 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, "meilleurs", "meilleur", "meilleure", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is meilleures, spelled M-E-I-L-L-E-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de meilleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meilleures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emilleures
- meilelures
- meileures
- meillerues
- meilleuers
- meilleuress
- meilleurres
- meilleurse
- meillueres
- melileures
- mielleures
- mmeilleures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meilleures - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "meilleures", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).