confirment

\kɔ̃.fiʁm\

/\kɔ̃.fiʁm\/ verb

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The verdict

“confirment” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,547. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,547
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-confirment · confirment · French

confirment · rank #11,547 · 16 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,547
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH condoléances

Nearest frequency peer: condoléances (-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 « confirment »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « confirment » 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).

confirment vs confirmer
80% similar
confirment vs confirmez
80% similar
confirment vs confirmera
80% similar

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

Key facts for confirment
PropertyValue
Headwordconfirment
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃.fiʁm\
Letters10
Frequency rank#11,547
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confirment »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).confirmentse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « condoléances » (#11,546), « composées » (#11,545), « conservant » (#11,549). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « confirment » est au #11,547. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around confirment (IPA \kɔ̃.fiʁm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,547 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for confirment, with forms such as "cconfirment", "cnofirment", and "cofnirment". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "confirmer", "confirmez", "confirmera", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is confirment, spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de confirmer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de confirmer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. D’autres chiffres confirment par ailleurs cette impression si l’on accepte de les “débilatéraliser”: Si l’on observe le déficit commercial des US avec l’Asie au lieu du déficit bilatéral US avec la Chine on ne peut que constater une remarquable stabilité de ce déficit depuis 25 ans, de l’ordre de 2 à 3% du PNB US.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconfirment
  • cnofirment
  • cofnirment
  • conffirment
  • confimrent
  • confiremnt
  • confirmennt
  • confirmentt
  • confirmetn
  • confirmment
  • confirmnet
  • confirrment
  • confriment
  • conifrment
  • connfirment
  • ocnfirment

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

cconfirment1cnofirment2cofnirment2conffirment1confimrent2confiremnt2confirmennt1confirmentt1
Edit distance from "confirment"

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 "confirment"?
"confirment" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃.fiʁm\.
What does "confirment" mean?
As a verb, "confirment" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de confirmer.
What words are commonly confused with "confirment"?
"confirment" is commonly confused with "confirmer", "confirmez", "confirmera". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confirment"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confirment" is \kɔ̃.fiʁm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confirment" come from?
"confirment" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

conservant#11,549Casablanca#11,536Autrichien#11,528délivrance#11,570

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

chronologie16 variantscapitaliste16 variantsambassadeurs16 variantsadolescente16 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list