spécimens
\spe.si.mɛn\
The verdict
“spécimens” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,041. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,041
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de spécimen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-specimens · spécimens · French
spécimens · rank #15,041 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,041
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spontanée
Nearest frequency peer: spontanée (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “spécimens”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- soprano
soprano
84,963 corpus weight
- spectaculai…
spectaculaires
84,962 corpus weight
- spontanée
spontanée
84,961 corpus weight
- spécimens
spécimens
84,960 corpus weight
- statique
statique
84,959 corpus weight
- suez
suez
84,958 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “spécimens” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | spécimens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spe.si.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “spécimens” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around spécimens (IPA \spe.si.mɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,041 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de spécimen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for spécimens, with forms such as "psécimens", "spcéimens", and "specimens". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "species", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 spécimens, spelled S-P-É-C-I-M-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de spécimen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spécimens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est ainsi que l’année dernière, nous avons trouvé plusieurs cadavres de cet insecte autour de spécimens de cette dangereuse espèce rencontrée sur la lisière du bois d’Acoz, où elle s’est spontanéisée depuis quelque vingt ans.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psécimens
- spcéimens
- specimens
- sppécimens
- spéccimens
- spéciemns
- spécimenns
- spécimenss
- spécimesn
- spécimmens
- spécimnes
- spécmiens
- spéicmens
- sspécimens
- sépcimens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spécimens - 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 "spécimens", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (15 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "species". View pair
- 15 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,041 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.