observatoires
\ɔp.sɛʁ.va.twaʁ\
The verdict
“observatoires” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,977. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,977
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de observatoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-observatoires · observatoires · French
observatoires · rank #36,977 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,977
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH négociée
Nearest frequency peer: négociée (-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 « observatoires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Nyon
Nyon
63,027 corpus weight
- nécessitera…
nécessiterait
63,026 corpus weight
- négociée
négociée
63,025 corpus weight
- observatoir…
observatoires
63,024 corpus weight
- occasionner
occasionner
63,023 corpus weight
- October
October
63,022 corpus weight
What this shows « observatoires » 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 | observatoires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #36,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « observatoires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around observatoires (IPA \ɔp.sɛʁ.va.twaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,977 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de observatoire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for observatoires, with forms such as "boservatoires", "obbservatoires", and "obesrvatoires". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "observatoire", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is observatoires, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-A-T-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de observatoire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boservatoires
- obbservatoires
- obesrvatoires
- obseravtoires
- obserrvatoires
- observaotires
- observatiores
- observatoiers
- observatoiress
- observatoirres
- observatoirse
- observatories
- observattoires
- observtaoires
- observvatoires
- obsevratoires
- obsrevatoires
- obsservatoires
- osbervatoires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of observatoires - 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 "observatoires", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).