onces
\ɔ̃s\
The verdict
“onces” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,500
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de once.
Corpus desk
Index FR-onces · onces · French
onces · rank #42,500 · 6 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,500
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH onyx
Nearest frequency peer: onyx (+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 « onces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- offset
offset
57,504 corpus weight
- ogres
ogres
57,503 corpus weight
- onces
onces
57,501 corpus weight
- onyx
onyx
57,500 corpus weight
- opt
opt
57,499 corpus weight
- orageuse
orageuse
57,498 corpus weight
What this shows « onces » 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 | onces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ̃s\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « onces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around onces (IPA \ɔ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,500 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de once.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for onces, with forms such as "ocnes", "oncces", and "oncess". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "one", "ons", "onze", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is onces, spelled O-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de once.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ocnes
- oncces
- oncess
- oncse
- onecs
- onnces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of onces - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).