slaves
\slav\
The verdict
“slaves” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,408
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de slave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slaves · slaves · French
slaves · rank #19,408 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,408
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sexiste
Nearest frequency peer: sexiste (-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 « slaves »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saxonne
saxonne
80,597 corpus weight
- schizophrén…
schizophrénie
80,596 corpus weight
- sermon
sermon
80,595 corpus weight
- sexiste
sexiste
80,594 corpus weight
- slaves
slaves
80,593 corpus weight
- soignants
soignants
80,591 corpus weight
What this shows « slaves » 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 | slaves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \slav\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « slaves »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around slaves (IPA \slav\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,408 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de slave.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for slaves, with forms such as "lsaves", "slaevs", and "slavess". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "suave", "stages", "stades", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is slaves, spelled S-L-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de slave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slaves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Echappée aux disputes retentissantes que mon dernier article vous signalait, elle vient de se donner un comité de rédaction nouveau, décidé à chercher par tous les moyens à coordonner, à synarchiser les efforts artistiques non seulement de l'école tchèque, mais de toute les écoles slaves de façon à faire si possible de Prague une véritable capitale slave.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsaves
- slaevs
- slavess
- slavse
- slavves
- sllaves
- slvaes
- sslaves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slaves - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "slaves", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).