motrices

Name: motrices, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\mɔ.tʁis\

/\mɔ.tʁis\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“motrices” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,260
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 moteur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-motrices · motrices · French

motrices · rank #18,260 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

FREQ-MID #18,260
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
VAR-MID 12 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH moraux

Nearest frequency peer: moraux (-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.

mind

81,744
moquent

81,743
moraux

81,742
motrices

81,741
mécontents

81,740
Naomi

81,739

What this shows « motrices » 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).

motrices vs matrice

75% similar

motrices vs motivés

63% similar

motrices vs motrice

88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for motrices
Property	Value
Headword	motrices
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\mɔ.tʁis\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#18,260
Misspellings tracked	12
Confusable pairs	5
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motrices »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.motricesse place ici:

#18,260

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « moraux » (#18,259), « mécontents » (#18,261), « moquent » (#18,258). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « motrices » est au #18,260. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around motrices (IPA \mɔ.tʁis\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,260 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de moteur.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for motrices, with forms such as "mmotrices", "mortices", and "motirces". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "matrice", "motivés", "motrice", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is motrices, spelled M-O-T-R-I-C-E-S.

Definition

1
Féminin pluriel de moteur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how motrices appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

En donnant à la tête de l’animal dans l’espace telle ou telle direction, nous excitons probablement des fibres centripètes qui viennent s’« isochroniser » avec telles ou telles autres fibres motrices de l’arc réflexe.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

mmotrices
mortices
motirces
motrcies
motricces
motricess
motricse
motriecs
motrrices
mottrices
mtorices
omtrices

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motrices - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "motrices"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "motrices"?

"motrices" is spelled M-O-T-R-I-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mɔ.tʁis\.

What does "motrices" mean?

As an adjective, "motrices" means: Féminin pluriel de moteur.

What words are commonly confused with "motrices"?

"motrices" is commonly confused with "matrice", "motivés", "motrice". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "motrices"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "motrices" is \mɔ.tʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "motrices" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "motrices", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

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