oculaires
\ɔ.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“oculaires” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,112
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de oculaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oculaires · oculaires · French
oculaires · rank #26,112 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,112
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH octroie
Nearest frequency peer: octroie (-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 « oculaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- NPA
NPA
73,892 corpus weight
- ocre
ocre
73,891 corpus weight
- octroie
octroie
73,890 corpus weight
- oculaires
oculaires
73,889 corpus weight
- oserait
oserait
73,887 corpus weight
- ovation
ovation
73,886 corpus weight
What this shows « oculaires » 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 | oculaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « oculaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around oculaires (IPA \ɔ.ky.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,112 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de oculaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for oculaires, with forms such as "coulaires", "occulaires", and "ocluaires". 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, "oculaire", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is oculaires, spelled O-C-U-L-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de oculaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oculaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et là, commençant à me débarbeler le menton, dans la glace à trois pans au-dessus du lavabo, je vois, déployée tout autour de moi, répétée en échos infinis s’engendrant comme les degrés, les vivants piliers d’un temple qui enfermerait tout l’espace, la foule inconcevable de mes visages tournés dans toutes les directions : oui, moi, ma gueule à moitié enne…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- coulaires
- occulaires
- ocluaires
- ocualires
- oculaiers
- oculairess
- oculairres
- oculairse
- ocularies
- oculiares
- ocullaires
- ouclaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oculaires - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).