scandales
\skɑ̃.dal\
The verdict
“scandales” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de scandale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-scandales · scandales · French
scandales · rank #12,050 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,050
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Salomon
Nearest frequency peer: Salomon (-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 « scandales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- résolutions
résolutions
87,954 corpus weight
- réussis
réussis
87,953 corpus weight
- Salomon
Salomon
87,952 corpus weight
- scandales
scandales
87,951 corpus weight
- sceau
sceau
87,950 corpus weight
- signataires
signataires
87,949 corpus weight
What this shows « scandales » 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 | scandales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \skɑ̃.dal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « scandales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around scandales (IPA \skɑ̃.dal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,050 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de scandale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for scandales, with forms such as "csandales", "sacndales", and "scadnales". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "scandaleux", "scandaleuse", "scandal", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is scandales, spelled S-C-A-N-D-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de scandale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scandales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour la première fois, quelqu’un avait osé dénoncer devant le Parlement les scandales financiers et pédagogiques qui sont le lot quotidien de l’Enseignement en France, et dire tout haut ce qu’à RlVAROL et à ÉCRITS DE PARIS nous avons toujours pensé… tout haut, à savoir qu’il était grand temps de déblattiser la maison et de faire sortir l’École du ghetto d…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csandales
- sacndales
- scadnales
- scanadles
- scandaels
- scandaless
- scandalles
- scandalse
- scanddales
- scandlaes
- scanndales
- sccandales
- scnadales
- sscandales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scandales - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).