tableaux
\ta.blo\
The verdict
“tableaux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,805
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tableau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tableaux · tableaux · French
tableaux · rank #3,805 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,805
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH souffre
Nearest frequency peer: souffre (-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 « tableaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sièges
sièges
96,199 corpus weight
- sortent
sortent
96,198 corpus weight
- souffre
souffre
96,197 corpus weight
- tableaux
tableaux
96,196 corpus weight
- Thierry
Thierry
96,195 corpus weight
- toilettes
toilettes
96,194 corpus weight
What this shows « tableaux » 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 | tableaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.blo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tableaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tableaux (IPA \ta.blo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,805 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tableau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tableaux, with forms such as "atbleaux", "tabbleaux", and "tabelaux". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tableur", "taureaux", "tableau", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tableaux, spelled T-A-B-L-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tableau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tableaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’écrivais, d’après les revues bolchevisantes elles-mêmes « qu’il s’agit de détruire le goût et la tradition des bourgeois, qu’on a bien commencé de les affoler en prônant des tableaux absurdes, en habituant leurs yeux aux déformations et aux rébus, mais que le tableau c’est petit, et qu’on agirait bien plus puissamment pour « termitiser » le public si on…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atbleaux
- tabbleaux
- tabelaux
- tablaeux
- tableauxx
- tableaxu
- tableuax
- tablleaux
- talbeaux
- tbaleaux
- ttableaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tableaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).