9e
\nœ.vjɛm\
The verdict
“9e” sits in 1 confusable pair (corpus #14,838) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,838
- frequency rank, French
- 2
- letters
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neuvième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-9e · 9e · French
9e · rank #14,838 · 0 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,838
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "9" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH 2nd
Nearest frequency peer: 2nd (-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 « 9e »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- éveillé
éveillé
85,166 corpus weight
- éventualité
éventualité
85,165 corpus weight
- 2nd
2nd
85,164 corpus weight
- 9e
9e
85,163 corpus weight
- achèvement
achèvement
85,162 corpus weight
- addiction
addiction
85,161 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 9e » 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 | 9e |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nœ.vjɛm\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 9e »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 9e is neighbouring look-alikes ("neuvième"), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \nœ.vjɛm\. Frequency #14,838. Gloss: "Neuvième.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for 9e, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "neuvième", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is 9e, spelled 9-E.
Definition
- 1Neuvième.
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.