species
\ˈspis.iz\
The verdict
“species” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,882
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce biologique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-species · species · French
species · rank #45,882 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,882
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spectrum
Nearest frequency peer: spectrum (+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 « species »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sirops
sirops
54,123 corpus weight
- soutane
soutane
54,121 corpus weight
- species
species
54,119 corpus weight
- spectrum
spectrum
54,118 corpus weight
- stabilisate…
stabilisateur
54,116 corpus weight
- Stahl
Stahl
54,115 corpus weight
What this shows « species » 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 | species |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈspis.iz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « species »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around species (IPA \ˈspis.iz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,882 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for species, with forms such as "psecies", "sepcies", and "spceies". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "spectres", "spécimens", "series", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is species, spelled S-P-E-C-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Espèce biologique.
- 2Espèce chimique.
- 3Espèce minérale, espèce.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psecies
- sepcies
- spceies
- speccies
- speceis
- speciess
- specise
- speices
- sppecies
- sspecies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of species - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "species", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).