watts
\wat\
The verdict
“watts” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,777
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de watt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-watts · watts · French
watts · rank #16,777 · 6 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,777
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vétéran
Nearest frequency peer: vétéran (-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 « watts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- virée
virée
83,228 corpus weight
- volontés
volontés
83,226 corpus weight
- vétéran
vétéran
83,225 corpus weight
- watts
watts
83,224 corpus weight
- Zelda
Zelda
83,221 corpus weight
- zèle
zèle
83,220 corpus weight
What this shows « watts » 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 | watts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « watts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around watts (IPA \wat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,777 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de watt.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for watts, with forms such as "awtts", "wats", and "watst". 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, "ways", "Wyatt", "what", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is watts, spelled W-A-T-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de watt.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awtts
- wats
- watst
- wattss
- wtats
- wwatts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of watts - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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