regards
\ʁə.ɡaʁ\
The verdict
“regards” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,698
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de regard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regards · regards · French
regards · rank #5,698 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,698
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapprocher
Nearest frequency peer: rapprocher (-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 « regards »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pâte
pâte
94,305 corpus weight
- rapprocher
rapprocher
94,304 corpus weight
- regards
regards
94,303 corpus weight
- rembourser
rembourser
94,302 corpus weight
- renouvellem…
renouvellement
94,301 corpus weight
- repartir
repartir
94,300 corpus weight
What this shows « regards » 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 | regards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « regards »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around regards (IPA \ʁə.ɡaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,698 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de regard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for regards, with forms such as "ergards", "reagrds", and "regadrs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "retard", "renard", "repars", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is regards, spelled R-E-G-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de regard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how regards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mme la comtesse Sixte triomphait si patemment de Lucien, elle en jouait si bien en femme enchantée de son instrument, elle lui fournissait la réplique avec tant d’à-propos, elle quêtait pour lui des approbations par des regards si compromettants, que plusieurs femmes commencèrent à voir dans la coïncidence du retour de Louise et de Lucien un profond amour…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergards
- reagrds
- regadrs
- regardds
- regardss
- regarrds
- regarsd
- reggards
- regrads
- rgeards
- rregards
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regards - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "regards", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).