modestes
\mɔ.dɛst\
The verdict
“modestes” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,348
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de modeste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-modestes · modestes · French
modestes · rank #9,348 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,348
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massage
Nearest frequency peer: massage (-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 « modestes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- législative
législative
90,656 corpus weight
- marshall
marshall
90,655 corpus weight
- massage
massage
90,654 corpus weight
- modestes
modestes
90,653 corpus weight
- mondiales
mondiales
90,652 corpus weight
- Moon
Moon
90,651 corpus weight
What this shows « modestes » 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 | modestes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛst\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « modestes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around modestes (IPA \mɔ.dɛst\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,348 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de modeste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for modestes, with forms such as "mdoestes", "mmodestes", and "moddestes". 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, "modestie", "mouettes", "modeste", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is modestes, spelled M-O-D-E-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de modeste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modestes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Modestes cayennes en bordure d'un chenal ou villages sauniers autour d’un ruisson, l’habitat dispersé correspondait aux villages de gens de mer.
Les mères sont des inspiratrices, les vraies mères, des inspiratrices qui paraissent peu, le plus souvent, modestes, effacées, mais combien influentes !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdoestes
- mmodestes
- moddestes
- modesets
- modesstes
- modestess
- modestse
- modesttes
- modetses
- modsetes
- moedstes
- omdestes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of modestes - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).