tels
\tɛl\
The verdict
“tels” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,303. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,303
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de tel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tels · tels · French
tels · rank #1,303 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,303
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH surface
Nearest frequency peer: surface (-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 « tels »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parlement
parlement
98,701 corpus weight
- peau
peau
98,700 corpus weight
- surface
surface
98,699 corpus weight
- tels
tels
98,698 corpus weight
- uniquement
uniquement
98,697 corpus weight
- vendre
vendre
98,696 corpus weight
What this shows « tels » 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 | tels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tels »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tels (IPA \tɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,303 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de tel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tels, with forms such as "etls", "tells", and "telss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tl", "TS", "tes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tels, spelled T-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de tel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tels appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La scirpaie est répartie sur de faibles surfaces, principalement sur le littoral du Finistère, les étangs palavasiens, la Camargue ainsi que dans les régions d’étangs tels que la Dombes et la Brenne.
C’était là que nous entreposions des voitures, des motos et des bicyclettes abandonnées, volées, retrouvées et pas réclamées, et rangions nos véhicules cassés, la cahute en ciment abritant des foultitudes d’objets illicites, tels revolvers, carabines, couteaux de toutes sortes, pilules, poudres et herbes de toutes autres sortes, publications cochonnes (de…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etls
- tells
- telss
- tesl
- tles
- ttels
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tels - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).