attira
\a.ti.ʁa\
The verdict
“attira” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,557. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,557
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe attirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attira · attira · French
attira · rank #33,557 · 6 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,557
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assourdissant
Nearest frequency peer: assourdissant (-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 « attira »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assigne
assigne
66,447 corpus weight
- assortiment
assortiment
66,446 corpus weight
- assourdissa…
assourdissant
66,445 corpus weight
- attira
attira
66,444 corpus weight
- automatiser
automatiser
66,443 corpus weight
- avertie
avertie
66,442 corpus weight
What this shows « attira » 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 | attira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ti.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attira »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around attira (IPA \a.ti.ʁa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,557 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe attirer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for attira, with forms such as "atira", "atitra", and "attiar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "attiré", "attise", "attirer", 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 attira, spelled A-T-T-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe attirer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il attira une feuille de papier pot — il affectionnait ce format en raison de son caractère de gravité administrative, prétendait-il — et commença à tracer des formules, selon une méthode qui lui était chère.
l’une de ses sandales d’airain laissée sur le bord du cratère révéla la tombe et l’orgueil du philosophe, et désapothéosé il s’attira au lieu de la superstitieuse adoration de ses crédules concitoyens, l’éternelle risée de la postérité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atira
- atitra
- attiar
- attirra
- attria
- tatira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attira - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).