choisir
\ʃwa.ziʁ\
The verdict
“choisir” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,322
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire un choix ; prendre une personne ou une chose de préférence à une autre ou à plusieurs autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-choisir · choisir · French
choisir · rank #1,322 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,322
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH certaine
Nearest frequency peer: certaine (-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 « choisir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- budget
budget
98,682 corpus weight
- caractère
caractère
98,681 corpus weight
- certaine
certaine
98,680 corpus weight
- choisir
choisir
98,679 corpus weight
- compter
compter
98,678 corpus weight
- connaît
connaît
98,677 corpus weight
What this shows « choisir » 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 | choisir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃwa.ziʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « choisir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around choisir (IPA \ʃwa.ziʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,322 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Faire un choix ; prendre une personne ou une chose de préférence à une autre ou à plusieurs autres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for choisir, with forms such as "cchoisir", "chhoisir", and "chiosir". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "choisis", "choisit", "croiser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 choisir, spelled C-H-O-I-S-I-R.
Definition
- 1Faire un choix ; prendre une personne ou une chose de préférence à une autre ou à plusieurs autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how choisir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne s'étonnera donc pas que l'astronome de Greenwich eût été choisi pour opérer dans la circonstance suivante qui intéressait au plus haut point la science sélénographique.
Dans le pays de production ou d’élève, tout le monde est à peu près apte à choisir un cheval.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchoisir
- chhoisir
- chiosir
- choiisr
- choisirr
- choisri
- choissir
- chosiir
- cohisir
- hcoisir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of choisir - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).