regrets
\ʁə.ɡʁɛ\
The verdict
“regrets” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,453
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de regret.
Corpus desk
Index FR-regrets · regrets · French
regrets · rank #8,453 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,453
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reculer
Nearest frequency peer: reculer (-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 « regrets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rappeur
rappeur
91,551 corpus weight
- reculer
reculer
91,549 corpus weight
- regrets
regrets
91,548 corpus weight
- renvoyé
renvoyé
91,547 corpus weight
- repérer
repérer
91,546 corpus weight
- restrictions
restrictions
91,545 corpus weight
What this shows « regrets » 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 | regrets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ɡʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « regrets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around regrets (IPA \ʁə.ɡʁɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,453 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de regret.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for regrets, with forms such as "ergrets", "regerts", and "reggrets". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "remets", "rejets", "regrette", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is regrets, spelled R-E-G-R-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de regret.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how regrets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jiang Qingse raidit et s’enquiert de l’identité de l’individu mais Wang Dongxing fait des circonlocutions, il rondouillardise, s’adonne à toute une gymnastique d’apprêts, nasillant que c’est quelqu’un qu’elle JiangQing croit son ennemi, qui ne l’est pas, même si récemment elle a échangé avec lui des propos tumultueux, mais c’est un malentendu, un petit ma…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergrets
- regerts
- reggrets
- regrest
- regretss
- regretts
- regrrets
- regrtes
- rergets
- rgerets
- rregrets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regrets - 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
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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).