nationales
\na.sjɔ.nal\
The verdict
“nationales” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,477
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de national.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nationales · nationales · French
nationales · rank #3,477 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,477
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH méchant
Nearest frequency peer: méchant (-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 « nationales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mit
mit
96,527 corpus weight
- mystère
mystère
96,526 corpus weight
- méchant
méchant
96,525 corpus weight
- nationales
nationales
96,524 corpus weight
- opposé
opposé
96,523 corpus weight
- orientation
orientation
96,522 corpus weight
What this shows « nationales » 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 | nationales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.sjɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nationales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around nationales (IPA \na.sjɔ.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,477 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de national.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for nationales, with forms such as "antionales", "naitonales", and "natinoales". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "nazionale", "nationalités", "national", and more, 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 is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is nationales, spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de national.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nationales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il y avait encore un potentiel de support possible chez les groupes épars vaguement appelés "les intellectuels", ou plus exactement les non-analphabètes manifestant une certaine sympathie pour les choses dites "nationales".
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- antionales
- naitonales
- natinoales
- natioanles
- nationaels
- nationaless
- nationalles
- nationalse
- nationlaes
- nationnales
- natoinales
- nattionales
- nnationales
- ntaionales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nationales - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).