spectacle
\spɛk.takl\
The verdict
“spectacle” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,578
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vue d’ensemble qui attire les regards, l’attention.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spectacle · spectacle · French
spectacle · rank #1,578 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,578
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH sociales
Nearest frequency peer: sociales (-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 « spectacle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sent
sent
98,426 corpus weight
- signifie
signifie
98,425 corpus weight
- sociales
sociales
98,424 corpus weight
- spectacle
spectacle
98,423 corpus weight
- techniques
techniques
98,422 corpus weight
- Algérie
Algérie
98,421 corpus weight
What this shows « spectacle » 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 | spectacle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spɛk.takl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spectacle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around spectacle (IPA \spɛk.takl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,578 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for spectacle, with forms such as "psectacle", "sepctacle", and "spcetacle". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "spectrale", "spectacles", "spéciale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is spectacle, spelled S-P-E-C-T-A-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Vue d’ensemble qui attire les regards, l’attention.
- 2Divertissement offert au public, et particulièrement de la représentation d’une pièce de théâtre.
- 3Manifestation publique remarquable ou admirable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spectacle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, vivement impressionné par la noblesse réelle du spectacle, je ne pus m’empêcher de mêler ma voix aux acclamations enthousiastes des croyants prosternés.
[…], Henri dégusta, quelques secondes, le spectacle désolant de ces ombres errantes et pataugeantes, semblables à des bêtes d’un autre âge, grouillant dans un décor diluvien.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psectacle
- sepctacle
- spcetacle
- specatcle
- specctacle
- spectaccle
- spectacel
- spectaclle
- spectalce
- spectcale
- specttacle
- spetcacle
- sppectacle
- sspectacle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spectacle - 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 "spectacle", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).