Thèbes
\tɛb\
The verdict
“Thèbes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,764
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Grèce, dans la région de Béotie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thebes · Thèbes · French
Thèbes · rank #31,764 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,764
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taquet
Nearest frequency peer: taquet (-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 « Thèbes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sépulcre
sépulcre
68,240 corpus weight
- Tanaka
Tanaka
68,239 corpus weight
- taquet
taquet
68,238 corpus weight
- Thèbes
Thèbes
68,237 corpus weight
- TMC
TMC
68,236 corpus weight
- Tonkin
Tonkin
68,235 corpus weight
What this shows « Thèbes » 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 | Thèbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛb\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Thèbes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Thèbes (IPA \tɛb\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,764 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Thèbes, with forms such as "htèbes", "thbèes", and "thebes". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "thés", "thèse", "tubes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Thèbes, spelled T-H-È-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ville de Grèce, dans la région de Béotie.
- 2Ville de l’Égypte antique, du quatrième nome de Haute-Égypte (appelée aujourd'hui Louxor).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Thèbes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suivant les positions qu'ils adoptent à l'égard de l'évolution politique de Thèbes et des cités béotiennes, les commentateurs de Ps-Xénophon interprètent son allusion à l'intervention athénienne en Béotie de façons très différentes.
Il a été commandé par Ahmosis, le roi de Thèbes, pour le temple du dieu Amon.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htèbes
- thbèes
- thebes
- thhèbes
- thèbbes
- thèbess
- thèbse
- thèebs
- tthèbes
- tèhbes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Thèbes - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Thèbes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).