pertes
\pɛʁt\
The verdict
“pertes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,485
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de perte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pertes · pertes · French
pertes · rank #3,485 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,485
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paysage
Nearest frequency peer: paysage (-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 « pertes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- origines
origines
96,520 corpus weight
- paquet
paquet
96,519 corpus weight
- paysage
paysage
96,517 corpus weight
- pertes
pertes
96,516 corpus weight
- pleurer
pleurer
96,514 corpus weight
- potes
potes
96,513 corpus weight
What this shows « pertes » 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 | pertes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pertes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pertes (IPA \pɛʁt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,485 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pertes, with forms such as "eprtes", "perets", and "perrtes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "près", "pète", "pets", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pertes, spelled P-E-R-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de perte.
- 2Victimes humaines d’un conflit, d’une guerre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pertes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les traductions les plus habiles ne contourneront jamais l’écueil de ces pertes et ajouts nocifs, et leur lecteur francophone ne sera pas aidé en permanence par le réseau de la dialectique spontanée du langage, comme c’est le cas plus qu’ailleurs dans un livre qui donne la parole à la conscience naturelle (laquelle s’exprime toujours dans une langue « nat…
Les pertes furent innombrables au cours de la campagne de Russie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprtes
- perets
- perrtes
- pertess
- pertse
- perttes
- petres
- ppertes
- pretes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pertes - 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 "pertes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).