microbes
\mi.kʁɔb\
The verdict
“microbes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,501. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,501
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de microbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microbes · microbes · French
microbes · rank #20,501 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH messes
Nearest frequency peer: messes (-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 « microbes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- MB
MB
79,503 corpus weight
- McLaren
McLaren
79,502 corpus weight
- messes
messes
79,501 corpus weight
- microbes
microbes
79,500 corpus weight
- millionnair…
millionnaires
79,499 corpus weight
- mirent
mirent
79,498 corpus weight
What this shows « microbes » 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 | microbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔb\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « microbes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around microbes (IPA \mi.kʁɔb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,501 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de microbe.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for microbes, with forms such as "imcrobes", "mcirobes", and "miccrobes". 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, "micros", "microns", "microbe", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is microbes, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de microbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how microbes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il se tourna vers Capevirade toujours à demi absent de ce débat où se réglait son sort, pareil au cobaye qui rongeote, indifférent, tandis que de doctes personnages s’interrogent autour de lui sur les virus et les microbes qu’on lui injectera.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imcrobes
- mcirobes
- miccrobes
- micorbes
- micrboes
- microbbes
- microbess
- microbse
- microebs
- micrrobes
- mircobes
- mmicrobes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of microbes - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "microbes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).