annuaire
\a.nɥɛʁ\
The verdict
“annuaire” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,445. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,445
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrit destiné à donner chaque année les renseignements nécessaires sur un organisme administratif, industriel, commercial, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-annuaire · annuaire · French
annuaire · rank #10,445 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,445
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH annuellement
Nearest frequency peer: annuellement (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « annuaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aiguilles
aiguilles
89,559 corpus weight
- annuaire
annuaire
89,556 corpus weight
- annuellement
annuellement
89,555 corpus weight
- annuelles
annuelles
89,554 corpus weight
- apparences
apparences
89,553 corpus weight
- araignée
araignée
89,552 corpus weight
What this shows « annuaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | annuaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.nɥɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « annuaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around annuaire (IPA \a.nɥɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,445 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for annuaire, with forms such as "annauire", "annuaier", and "annuairre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "annuité", "annulaire", "annuaires", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is annuaire, spelled A-N-N-U-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Écrit destiné à donner chaque année les renseignements nécessaires sur un organisme administratif, industriel, commercial, etc.
- 2Tableau annuel d’avancement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how annuaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On lui doit de nombreux fascicules édités à compte d’auteur, qui constituent d’irremplaçables annuaires, consacrés à l’extrême droite,à l’extrême gauche,aux religions minoritaires et aux conspirationnismes.
L’annuaire du Commerce maritime, de l’Institut, du Bureau des longitudes, des téléphones.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- annauire
- annuaier
- annuairre
- annuarie
- annuiare
- anuaire
- anunaire
- nanuaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of annuaire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "annuaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).