8e
\ɥi.tjɛm\
The verdict
“8e” sits in 2 confusable pairs (corpus #11,512) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,512
- frequency rank, French
- 2
- letters
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Huitième (ordinal).
Corpus desk
Index FR-8e · 8e · French
8e · rank #11,512 · 0 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,512
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "8" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH étudiantes
Nearest frequency peer: étudiantes (-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 « 8e »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- éprouve
éprouve
88,492 corpus weight
- équivalente
équivalente
88,491 corpus weight
- étudiantes
étudiantes
88,490 corpus weight
- 8e
8e
88,489 corpus weight
- accusée
accusée
88,488 corpus weight
- adolescente
adolescente
88,487 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 8e » 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 | 8e |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɥi.tjɛm\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 8e »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 8e is neighbouring look-alikes ("VIIIe", "8"), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ɥi.tjɛm\. Frequency #11,512. Gloss: "Huitième (ordinal).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for 8e, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "VIIIe", "8", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is 8e, spelled 8-E.
Definition
- 1Huitième (ordinal).
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.