variables
\va.ʁjabl\
The verdict
“variables” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,127
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de variable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-variables · variables · French
variables · rank #7,127 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,127
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Valérie
Nearest frequency peer: Valérie (-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 « variables »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tubes
tubes
92,877 corpus weight
- und
und
92,876 corpus weight
- Valérie
Valérie
92,875 corpus weight
- variables
variables
92,874 corpus weight
- Vatican
Vatican
92,873 corpus weight
- Vedette
Vedette
92,872 corpus weight
What this shows « variables » 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 | variables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \va.ʁjabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « variables »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around variables (IPA \va.ʁjabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,127 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de variable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for variables, with forms such as "avriables", "vairables", and "varaibles". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "viables", "variantes", "véritables", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is variables, spelled V-A-R-I-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de variable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how variables appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les calmes et les brises variables ne nous permirent qu’au bout de six jours de sortir du milieu de ce groupe d’îles et des innombrables récifs qui les environnent.
Si quelques patients étaient, de fait, plongés dans un coma profond — manifestement endormis, inertes —, d’autres se trouvaient dans des états végétatifs variables.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avriables
- vairables
- varaibles
- variabbles
- variabels
- variabless
- variablles
- variablse
- varialbes
- varibales
- varriables
- vraiables
- vvariables
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of variables - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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