States
\stɛts\
The verdict
“States” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,245
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - États-Unis d’Amérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-states · States · French
States · rank #10,245 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,245
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spécialisées
Nearest frequency peer: spécialisées (-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 « States »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sou
sou
89,759 corpus weight
- souffrant
souffrant
89,758 corpus weight
- spécialisées
spécialisées
89,757 corpus weight
- States
States
89,756 corpus weight
- sélectionnés
sélectionnés
89,755 corpus weight
- sélections
sélections
89,754 corpus weight
What this shows « States » 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 | States |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \stɛts\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « States »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around States (IPA \stɛts\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,245 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "États-Unis d’Amérique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for States, with forms such as "sattes", "sstates", and "staets". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stats", "statut", "statue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is States, spelled S-T-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1États-Unis d’Amérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how States appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il prétendait que son passeport était visé par les States.
Juppé a mille fois raison. Une opération militaire en Libye serait évidemment « contre-productive ». On veut espérer qu’il aura suffisamment d’autorité pour empêcher Sarkozy de se lancer dans une telle absurdité si jamais les Américains décidaient d’intervenir. Mais on connaît l’admiration béate de notre président pour tout ce qui vient des « States »…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sattes
- sstates
- staets
- statess
- statse
- stattes
- sttaes
- sttates
- tsates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of States - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).