confirme

\kɔ̃.fiʁm\

/\kɔ̃.fiʁm\/ verb

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The verdict

“confirme” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,612
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confirmer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-confirme · confirme · French

confirme · rank #2,612 · 12 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,612
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH collègues

Nearest frequency peer: collègues (-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 « confirme »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « confirme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

confirme vs conforte
75% similar
confirme vs confirmer
89% similar
confirme vs confirmée
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for confirme
PropertyValue
Headwordconfirme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.fiʁm\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,612
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confirme »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).confirmese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « collègues » (#2,611), « extrait » (#2,613), « chocolat » (#2,610). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confirme » est au #2,612. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around confirme (IPA \kɔ̃.fiʁm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,612 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for confirme, with forms such as "cconfirme", "cnofirme", and "cofnirme". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "conforte", "confirmer", "confirmée", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is confirme, spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confirmer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confirmer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de confirmer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de confirmer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de confirmer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how confirme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Premièrement, du point de vue historique, Bungener est un scrupuleux, un besogneux (comme le confirme la notice biographique que nous avons placée à la fin de ce volume, écrite par un de ses amis, le pasteur Jean-Pierre Gaberel).
  2. Pierre Niney est tordant. Et ça se confirme, de façon éclatante, dans Le Livre des solutions, de Michel Gondry, film découvert à la quinzaine du Festival de Cannes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconfirme
  • cnofirme
  • cofnirme
  • conffirme
  • confimre
  • confirem
  • confirmme
  • confirrme
  • confrime
  • conifrme
  • connfirme
  • ocnfirme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confirme - 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.

cconfirme1cnofirme2cofnirme2conffirme1confimre2confirem2confirmme1confirrme1
Edit distance from "confirme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confirme"?
"confirme" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fiʁm\.
What does "confirme" mean?
As a verb, "confirme" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de confirmer.
What words are commonly confused with "confirme"?
"confirme" is commonly confused with "conforte", "confirmer", "confirmée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confirme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confirme" is \kɔ̃.fiʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confirme" come from?
"confirme" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "confirme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

chocolat#2,610immeuble#2,623maladies#2,630ouvrages#2,588

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

collègues12 variantsnécessité12 variantsrarement12 variantsimmobilier12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list