statuaire

\sta.tɥɛʁ\

/\sta.tɥɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“statuaire” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,546
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les statues.

Corpus desk

Index FR-statuaire · statuaire · French

statuaire · rank #38,546 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,546
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH SSII

Nearest frequency peer: SSII (-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 « statuaire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « statuaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

statuaire vs stature
78% similar
statuaire vs statutaire
90% similar
statuaire vs statutaires
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for statuaire
PropertyValue
Headwordstatuaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\sta.tɥɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#38,546
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « statuaire »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.statuairese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « SSII » (#38,545), « succulent » (#38,547), « spice » (#38,544). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « statuaire » est au #38,546. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around statuaire (IPA \sta.tɥɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,546 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for statuaire, with forms such as "sattuaire", "sstatuaire", and "statauire". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "stature", "statutaire", "statutaires", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is statuaire, spelled S-T-A-T-U-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne les statues.
  2. 2
    Qui rappelle une statue.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how statuaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Art statuaire.
  2. Marbre statuaire, Marbre propre à faire des statues, qui est blanc et sans aucune tache ni veine, à la différence de celui qu’on emploie aux ouvrages d’architecture.

This word in other languages

statuary(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sattuaire
  • sstatuaire
  • statauire
  • statuaier
  • statuairre
  • statuarie
  • statuiare
  • stautaire
  • sttatuaire
  • sttauaire
  • tsatuaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of statuaire - 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.

sattuaire2sstatuaire1statauire2statuaier2statuairre1statuarie2statuiare2stautaire2
Edit distance from "statuaire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "statuaire"?
"statuaire" is spelled S-T-A-T-U-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sta.tɥɛʁ\.
What does "statuaire" mean?
As an adjective, "statuaire" means: Qui concerne les statues.
What words are commonly confused with "statuaire"?
"statuaire" is commonly confused with "stature", "statutaire", "statutaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "statuaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "statuaire" is \sta.tɥɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "statuaire" come from?
"statuaire" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "statuaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

succulent#38,547sécurités#38,558tenterait#38,564tolérable#38,569

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

sucrerie11 variantssolfège11 variantsréveils11 variantsravageur11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list