rideaux
\ʁi.do\
The verdict
“rideaux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,845
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rideau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rideaux · rideaux · French
rideaux · rank #11,845 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,845
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reposant
Nearest frequency peer: reposant (-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 « rideaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rejoignent
rejoignent
88,159 corpus weight
- rendrait
rendrait
88,158 corpus weight
- reposant
reposant
88,157 corpus weight
- rideaux
rideaux
88,156 corpus weight
- Roberto
Roberto
88,154 corpus weight
- Rom
Rom
88,153 corpus weight
What this shows « rideaux » 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 | rideaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rideaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around rideaux (IPA \ʁi.do\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,845 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de rideau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for rideaux, with forms such as "irdeaux", "rdieaux", and "ridaeux". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Rieux", "rivaux", "roseaux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rideaux, spelled R-I-D-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rideau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rideaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A chaque fenêtre on aperçoit, sous les rideaux de mousseline, des fuchsias ou des géraniums cultivés dans des pots avec une touchante sollicitude.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irdeaux
- rdieaux
- ridaeux
- riddeaux
- rideauxx
- rideaxu
- rideuax
- riedaux
- rrideaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rideaux - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).