1re
\pʁə.mjɛʁ\
The verdict
“1re” sits in 9 confusable pairs (corpus #9,950) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,950
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- “1” headwords
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première.
Corpus desk
Index FR-1re · 1re · French
1re · rank #9,950 · 0 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,950
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 11
- PHOTO-FINISH ab
Nearest frequency peer: ab (+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 « 1re »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- électeur
électeur
90,055 corpus weight
- émet
émet
90,054 corpus weight
- éventuels
éventuels
90,053 corpus weight
- 1re
1re
90,051 corpus weight
- ab
ab
90,050 corpus weight
- abandonnés
abandonnés
90,049 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 1re » 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 | 1re |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁə.mjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 1re »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 1re is neighbouring look-alikes ("1X", "1st", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \pʁə.mjɛʁ\. Frequency #9,950 among 11 “1” headwords. Gloss: "Première.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for 1re, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "1X", "1st", "première", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is 1re, spelled 1-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 1re appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vocalisation de la 1ʳᵉ syllabe dans ces formes est déterminée par le voisinage consonantique; la tendance à une vocalisation i ou u de cette syllabe qui apparaît dans le Maghrib oriental n’est pas ici sensible.
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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