statues
\sta.ty\
The verdict
“statues” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,931
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de statue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-statues · statues · French
statues · rank #8,931 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,931
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH square
Nearest frequency peer: square (-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 « statues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soudainement
soudainement
91,073 corpus weight
- soudan
soudan
91,072 corpus weight
- square
square
91,071 corpus weight
- statues
statues
91,070 corpus weight
- stone
stone
91,069 corpus weight
- streaming
streaming
91,068 corpus weight
What this shows « statues » 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 | statues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sta.ty\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « statues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around statues (IPA \sta.ty\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,931 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de statue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for statues, with forms such as "sattues", "sstatues", and "stateus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "statut", "Status", "statuts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is statues, spelled S-T-A-T-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de statue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how statues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tandis que la société Coup de Cœur se diversifie tous azimuts (chaussons, peignoirs) et n’hésite pas à encaleçonner les statues des Tuileries pour faire parler d’elle, Billichic se garde bien de tout faux mouvement.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sattues
- sstatues
- stateus
- stattues
- statuess
- statuse
- stautes
- sttatues
- sttaues
- tsatues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of statues - 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 "statues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).