strates
\stʁat\
The verdict
“strates” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,363
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de strate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-strates · strates · French
strates · rank #28,363 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spécifier
Nearest frequency peer: spécifier (-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 « strates »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Spinoza
Spinoza
71,641 corpus weight
- Springfield
Springfield
71,640 corpus weight
- spécifier
spécifier
71,639 corpus weight
- strates
strates
71,638 corpus weight
- sunny
sunny
71,637 corpus weight
- superposés
superposés
71,636 corpus weight
What this shows « strates » 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 | strates |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stʁat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « strates »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around strates (IPA \stʁat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,363 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de strate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for strates, with forms such as "srtates", "sstrates", and "startes". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Strauss", "strictes", "state", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is strates, spelled S-T-R-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de strate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how strates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est, ni plus ni moins, envisagé de (risquons ce néologisme) se stellariser, entrer dans la catégorie des étoiles (pensons à Rameau), non pour y briller soi-même, mais pour que l’œuvre participe à sa façon et par son poids, par son movimentum, au fonctionnement universel - ce qui exige la traversée (car Ponge file avec soin la métaphore) de deux états o…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtates
- sstrates
- startes
- straets
- stratess
- stratse
- strattes
- strrates
- strtaes
- sttrates
- tsrates
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strates - 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 "strates", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).