blessure
\blɛ.syʁ\
The verdict
“blessure” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,900. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,900
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plaie ou fracture produite par un coup ou un choc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blessure · blessure · French
blessure · rank #3,900 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,900
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biais
Nearest frequency peer: biais (-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 « blessure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- best
best
96,104 corpus weight
- beurre
beurre
96,103 corpus weight
- biais
biais
96,102 corpus weight
- blessure
blessure
96,101 corpus weight
- boucle
boucle
96,100 corpus weight
- Bulletin
Bulletin
96,099 corpus weight
What this shows « blessure » 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 | blessure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɛ.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « blessure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around blessure (IPA \blɛ.syʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,900 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for blessure, with forms such as "bblessure", "belssure", and "blessrue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "blessures", "blessé", "blesser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is blessure, spelled B-L-E-S-S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Plaie ou fracture produite par un coup ou un choc.
- 2Atteinte à l’honneur, à la réputation, à l’amour-propre.
- 3Peines morales que font éprouver certaines passions violentes.
- 4Traumatisme survenu dans l’enfance qui façonne la personnalité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blessure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le docteur Paul était ensuite venu, brillamment expliquer à la barre comment les coups avaient occasionné, en effet, seize blessures […].
Recevoir une blessure. Guérir une blessure. Mourir d’une blessure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblessure
- belssure
- blessrue
- blessuer
- blessurre
- blesure
- blesusre
- bllessure
- blsesure
- lbessure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blessure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).