confiner
\kɔ̃.fi.ne\
The verdict
“confiner” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,424
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toucher aux confins d’un pays, d’une terre, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confiner · confiner · French
confiner · rank #48,424 · 12 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conditionnent
Nearest frequency peer: conditionnent (-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 « confiner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conclura
conclura
51,580 corpus weight
- condamnait
condamnait
51,579 corpus weight
- conditionne…
conditionnent
51,578 corpus weight
- confiner
confiner
51,577 corpus weight
- confiseries
confiseries
51,576 corpus weight
- confisquée
confisquée
51,575 corpus weight
What this shows « confiner » 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 | confiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fi.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confiner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around confiner (IPA \kɔ̃.fi.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,424 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for confiner, with forms such as "cconfiner", "cnofiner", and "cofniner". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Conner", "confins", "confinés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is confiner, spelled C-O-N-F-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Toucher aux confins d’un pays, d’une terre, etc.
- 2Toucher à, être voisin de, être très proche de.
- 3Reléguer dans un certain lieu.
- 4Cantonner à, enfermer dans, une caractéristique ou une fonction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how confiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant la maison de mon oncle s’étendait une sorte de clos qui aboutissait à un champ nommé la Poterne, car il confinait aux anciennes fortifications de la petite ville ; … .
Dans le groupe du centre l'immigration l'emporte avec un excédent de plus de 32.000 unités (près de 3 %) ; il n'y a excédent d'émigration que dans les IIIᵉ, VIᵉ et IXᵉ arrondissements […]. Le maximum est donné par le Vᵉ (Panthéon) sur la rive gauche et le XIᵉ (Popincourt) sur la rive droite, avec un taux de plus de 9 % : tous deux confinent du reste aux l…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfiner
- cnofiner
- cofniner
- conffiner
- confienr
- confinerr
- confinner
- confinre
- confnier
- conifner
- connfiner
- ocnfiner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confiner - 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).