plateaux
\pla.to\
The verdict
“plateaux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,738. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,738
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fumées des bêtes fauves, lorsqu’elles sont plates et rondes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-plateaux · plateaux · French
plateaux · rank #7,738 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,738
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perfection
Nearest frequency peer: perfection (-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 « plateaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parker
parker
92,266 corpus weight
- passions
passions
92,265 corpus weight
- perfection
perfection
92,264 corpus weight
- plateaux
plateaux
92,263 corpus weight
- plongée
plongée
92,262 corpus weight
- pluies
pluies
92,261 corpus weight
What this shows « plateaux » 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 | plateaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pla.to\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « plateaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around plateaux (IPA \pla.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,738 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fumées des bêtes fauves, lorsqu’elles sont plates et rondes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plateaux, with forms such as "lpateaux", "palteaux", and "plaetaux". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "poteaux", "Puteaux", "plateau", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is plateaux, spelled P-L-A-T-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Fumées des bêtes fauves, lorsqu’elles sont plates et rondes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpateaux
- palteaux
- plaetaux
- plataeux
- plateauxx
- plateaxu
- plateuax
- platteaux
- pllateaux
- pltaeaux
- pplateaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plateaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).