confrères
\kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“confrères” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,803
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de confrère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-confreres · confrères · French
confrères · rank #9,803 · 15 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,803
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH connards
Nearest frequency peer: connards (+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 « confrères »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commences
commences
90,201 corpus weight
- communautai…
communautaires
90,200 corpus weight
- confrères
confrères
90,198 corpus weight
- connards
connards
90,197 corpus weight
- contester
contester
90,195 corpus weight
- contrôlée
contrôlée
90,194 corpus weight
What this shows « confrères » 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 | confrères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « confrères »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around confrères (IPA \kɔ̃.fʁɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,803 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de confrère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for confrères, with forms such as "cconfrères", "cnofrères", and "cofnrères". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "contrées", "confrérie", "conifères", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is confrères, spelled C-O-N-F-R-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de confrère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confrères appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au moment où Victorin écoutait le Dʳ Bianchon, qui lui détaillait les raisons qu’il avait d’espérer l’apaisement de cette crise, quoique ses confrères en désespérassent, le valet de chambre vint annoncer à l’avocat sa cliente, Mme de Saint-Estève.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfrères
- cnofrères
- cofnrères
- conffrères
- confreres
- confrrèes
- confrrères
- confrèers
- confrèress
- confrèrres
- confrèrse
- confèrres
- connfrères
- conrfères
- ocnfrères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confrères - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).