spéciaux
\spe.sjo\
The verdict
“spéciaux” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,994. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,994
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de spécial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-speciaux · spéciaux · French
spéciaux · rank #4,994 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spécialisée
Nearest frequency peer: spécialisée (-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 « spéciaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sols
sols
95,010 corpus weight
- Sonne
Sonne
95,009 corpus weight
- spécialisée
spécialisée
95,008 corpus weight
- spéciaux
spéciaux
95,007 corpus weight
- supérieurs
supérieurs
95,006 corpus weight
- suspension
suspension
95,005 corpus weight
What this shows « spéciaux » 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 | spéciaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spe.sjo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spéciaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around spéciaux (IPA \spe.sjo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,994 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de spécial.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for spéciaux, with forms such as "pséciaux", "spcéiaux", and "speciaux". 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, "sociaux", "special", "spéciale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 spéciaux, spelled S-P-É-C-I-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de spécial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spéciaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le ferrochrome est principalement consommé par les producteurs d’aciers fins et spéciaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pséciaux
- spcéiaux
- speciaux
- sppéciaux
- spécaiux
- spécciaux
- spéciauxx
- spéciaxu
- spéciuax
- spéicaux
- sspéciaux
- sépciaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spéciaux - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).