1er
\pʁə.mje\
The verdict
“1er” sits in 9 confusable pairs (corpus #893) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #893
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- “1” headwords
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Premier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-1er · 1er · French
1er · rank #893 · 0 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #893
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 11
- PHOTO-FINISH église
Nearest frequency peer: église (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 1er »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- terrain
terrain
99,111 corpus weight
- villes
villes
99,110 corpus weight
- église
église
99,109 corpus weight
- 1er
1er
99,108 corpus weight
- comprends
comprends
99,107 corpus weight
- créer
créer
99,106 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 1er » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | 1er |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁə.mje\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 1er »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 1er is neighbouring look-alikes ("1X", "1re", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \pʁə.mje\. Frequency #893 among 11 “1” headwords. Gloss: "Premier.".
1er doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "1X", "1re", "1st", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is 1er, spelled 1-E-R.
Definition
- 1Premier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 1er appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’actrice chinoise Fan Bingbing était encore introuvable hier soir, alors qu’elle n’avait pas donné signe de vie depuis le 1ᵉʳ juillet, lorsqu’elle avait visité un hôpital pour enfants à Shanghai.
This word in other languages
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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