mentales
\mɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“mentales” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,510
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de mental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mentales · mentales · French
mentales · rank #14,510 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,510
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH meneur
Nearest frequency peer: meneur (-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 « mentales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maximal
maximal
85,494 corpus weight
- Meaux
Meaux
85,493 corpus weight
- meneur
meneur
85,492 corpus weight
- mentales
mentales
85,491 corpus weight
- mentionnées
mentionnées
85,490 corpus weight
- mimi
mimi
85,489 corpus weight
What this shows « mentales » 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 | mentales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mentales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mentales (IPA \mɑ̃.tal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,510 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de mental.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mentales, with forms such as "emntales", "menatles", and "menntales". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "montages", "mentalités", "mental", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mentales, spelled M-E-N-T-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de mental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mentales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pipe qui n’en est pas une, le verre sur le parapluie, la rose qui occupe toute une pièce sont des images mentales, impossiblement actualisables.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emntales
- menatles
- menntales
- mentaels
- mentaless
- mentalles
- mentalse
- mentlaes
- menttales
- metnales
- mmentales
- mnetales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mentales - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).