puissances
\pɥi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“puissances” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,337. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,337
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de puissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puissances · puissances · French
puissances · rank #6,337 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,337
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prudence
Nearest frequency peer: prudence (-2 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 « puissances »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pourriez
pourriez
93,668 corpus weight
- proprement
proprement
93,667 corpus weight
- prudence
prudence
93,666 corpus weight
- puissances
puissances
93,664 corpus weight
- rattraper
rattraper
93,662 corpus weight
- respirer
respirer
93,661 corpus weight
What this shows « puissances » 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 | puissances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɥi.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puissances »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around puissances (IPA \pɥi.sɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,337 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de puissance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for puissances, with forms such as "piussances", "ppuissances", and "puisances". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "puissante", "puissants", "puissantes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is puissances, spelled P-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de puissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puissances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'Autriche déclarait en outre, qu’elle trouvait inadmissible que, dans l’article 3, les puissances se congratulassent de la signature de la paix entre la Prusse et le Danemarck, les hostilités ayant formellement repris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- piussances
- ppuissances
- puisances
- puisasnces
- puissacnes
- puissancces
- puissancess
- puissancse
- puissanecs
- puissannces
- puissnaces
- pusisances
- upissances
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puissances - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).