congédier
\kɔ̃.ʒe.dje\
The verdict
“congédier” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,716
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autoriser ou inviter quelqu’un à se retirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-congedier · congédier · French
congédier · rank #41,716 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,716
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH connaîtrait
Nearest frequency peer: connaîtrait (+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 « congédier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- concevable
concevable
58,288 corpus weight
- conductivité
conductivité
58,287 corpus weight
- congédier
congédier
58,285 corpus weight
- connaîtrait
connaîtrait
58,284 corpus weight
- conseillera…
conseillerais
58,283 corpus weight
- convenant
convenant
58,282 corpus weight
What this shows « congédier » 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 | congédier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ʒe.dje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « congédier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around congédier (IPA \kɔ̃.ʒe.dje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,716 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for congédier, with forms such as "ccongédier", "cnogédier", and "cognédier". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "congeler", "concéder", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is congédier, spelled C-O-N-G-É-D-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Autoriser ou inviter quelqu’un à se retirer.
- 2Déclarer ou faire connaître à un employé qu’il doit se retirer pour ne plus revenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how congédier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Suis-moi donc dans ce passage, dit Front-de-Bœuf, afin que je puisse te congédier par la poterne.
Il vit que son notaire était bien décidément un imbécile qu'il fallait tout uniment congédier, et il l'arrêta résolument par un geste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccongédier
- cnogédier
- cognédier
- congdéier
- congedier
- conggédier
- congéddier
- congédeir
- congédierr
- congédire
- congéider
- conngédier
- conégdier
- ocngédier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of congédier - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "congédier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).