respects
\ʁɛs.pɛ\
The verdict
“respects” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,777
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de respect.
Corpus desk
Index FR-respects · respects · French
respects · rank #30,777 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,777
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repensant
Nearest frequency peer: repensant (-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 « respects »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- releva
releva
69,227 corpus weight
- rendais
rendais
69,226 corpus weight
- repensant
repensant
69,225 corpus weight
- respects
respects
69,224 corpus weight
- retenant
retenant
69,223 corpus weight
- revenais
revenais
69,222 corpus weight
What this shows « respects » 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 | respects |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « respects »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around respects (IPA \ʁɛs.pɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,777 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de respect.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for respects, with forms such as "erspects", "repsects", and "resepcts". 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, "respect", "respecte", "respecter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is respects, spelled R-E-S-P-E-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de respect.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how respects appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j’allai lui présenter mes respects, je trouvai la porte ouverte et dépourvue du factionnaire de rigueur, et pour cause ; l’armée permanente de l’Islande se réduit à deux policemen, dont les gourdins suffisent à maintenir l’ordre le plus parfait sur toute l’étendue du territoire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erspects
- repsects
- resepcts
- respcets
- respeccts
- respecst
- respectss
- respectts
- respetcs
- resppects
- resspects
- rrespects
- rsepects
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of respects - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).