probables
\pʁɔ.babl\
The verdict
“probables” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,120
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de probable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-probables · probables · French
probables · rank #21,120 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,120
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poursuivra
Nearest frequency peer: poursuivra (-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 « probables »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poterie
poterie
78,884 corpus weight
- poupe
poupe
78,883 corpus weight
- poursuivra
poursuivra
78,882 corpus weight
- probables
probables
78,881 corpus weight
- proies
proies
78,880 corpus weight
- projectile
projectile
78,879 corpus weight
What this shows « probables » 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 | probables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.babl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « probables »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around probables (IPA \pʁɔ.babl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,120 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de probable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for probables, with forms such as "porbables", "pprobables", and "prboables". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "probable", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is probables, spelled P-R-O-B-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de probable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how probables appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, pour évaluer un gisement minier, il faut non seulement pouvoir apprécier les réserves inventoriées, possibles ou probables de la mine, mais il faut aussi être capable de préestimer le futur prix de revient, au moyen d’un avant-projet d’exploitation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porbables
- pprobables
- prboables
- proabbles
- probabbles
- probabels
- probabless
- probablles
- probablse
- probalbes
- probbables
- probbales
- prrobables
- rpobables
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of probables - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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