works
\ˈwɝks\
The verdict
“works” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,411
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de work (« travail, œuvre »).
Corpus desk
Index FR-works · works · French
works · rank #28,411 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,411
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH Wolff
Nearest frequency peer: Wolff (-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 « works »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- wee
wee
71,593 corpus weight
- Weinstein
Weinstein
71,592 corpus weight
- Wolff
Wolff
71,591 corpus weight
- works
works
71,590 corpus weight
- écrive
écrive
71,588 corpus weight
- édifiant
édifiant
71,587 corpus weight
What this shows « works » 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 | works |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɝks\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « works »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around works (IPA \ˈwɝks\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,411 among 549 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for works, with forms such as "owrks", "wokrs", and "workks". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "world", "worth", "worms", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is works, spelled W-O-R-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de work (« travail, œuvre »).
- 2Usine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owrks
- wokrs
- workks
- workss
- worrks
- worsk
- wroks
- wworks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of works - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).