1er
\pʁə.mje\
The verdict
“1er” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #893 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #893
- frequency rank, French
- 3
- letters
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Premier.
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) |
Where “1er” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for 1er is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mje\. Corpus data places it at rank #893 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “1er”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is 1-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁə.mje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “1X” - see the side-by-side comparison. 1er vs 1X
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.