spectaculaire
\spɛk.ta.ky.lɛʁ\
The verdict
“spectaculaire” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,312. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,312
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a l'aspect d'un spectacle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spectaculaire · spectaculaire · French
spectaculaire · rank #8,312 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,312
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soulever
Nearest frequency peer: soulever (-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 « spectaculaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- silva
silva
91,692 corpus weight
- single
single
91,691 corpus weight
- soulever
soulever
91,690 corpus weight
- spectaculai…
spectaculaire
91,689 corpus weight
- stratégiques
stratégiques
91,688 corpus weight
- tache
tache
91,687 corpus weight
What this shows « spectaculaire » 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 | spectaculaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \spɛk.ta.ky.lɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #8,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spectaculaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around spectaculaire (IPA \spɛk.ta.ky.lɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,312 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a l'aspect d'un spectacle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for spectaculaire, with forms such as "psectaculaire", "sepctaculaire", and "spcetaculaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "spectaculaires", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is spectaculaire, spelled S-P-E-C-T-A-C-U-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a l'aspect d'un spectacle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spectaculaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les griots de la nouvelle économie ont déchanté. La hausse continue des marchés boursiers a laissé place à un effondrement spectaculaire.
Et si l'ambiance est à l'image de celle qui régnait lors des précédents battles, organisés depuis 20 ans en Allemagne, la soirée promet d'être survoltée, avec ses DJ, ses "maîtres de cérémonie" et ses chorégraphies spectaculaires où se succèdent "headspins" (rotations du danseur sur la tête), "freezes" (postures immobiles), "locks" (mouvements indiquant d…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psectaculaire
- sepctaculaire
- spcetaculaire
- specatculaire
- specctaculaire
- spectacculaire
- spectacluaire
- spectacualire
- spectaculaier
- spectaculairre
- spectacularie
- spectaculiare
- spectacullaire
- spectauclaire
- spectcaulaire
- specttaculaire
- spetcaculaire
- sppectaculaire
- sspectaculaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spectaculaire - 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 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).