construire

\kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\

/\kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“construire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,698
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtir, élever, avec de la pierre, du bois, du métal, etc., d’après un plan déterminé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-construire · construire · French

construire · rank #1,698 · 15 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,698
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH collège

Nearest frequency peer: collège (-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 « construire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « construire » 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).

construire vs contraire
80% similar
construire vs construit
80% similar
construire vs construis
80% similar

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

Key facts for construire
PropertyValue
Headwordconstruire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,698
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « construire »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.construirese 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 « collège » (#1,697), « domicile » (#1,699), « Claude » (#1,696). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « construire » est au #1,698. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around construire (IPA \kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,698 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for construire, with forms such as "cconstruire", "cnostruire", and "connstruire". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "contraire", "construit", "construis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is construire, spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bâtir, élever, avec de la pierre, du bois, du métal, etc., d’après un plan déterminé.
  2. 2
    Faire, créer suivant un ensemble rationnel et harmonieux.
  3. 3
    Tracer.
  4. 4
    Disposer en suivant les règles et l’usage de la syntaxe.
  5. 5
    Arranger, disposer toutes les parties d’un poème, d’une pièce de théâtre.
  6. 6
    Disposer suivant un ordre.
  7. 7
    Créer un programme exécutable en le compilant à partir des sources.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Or, cette surélévation est construite en pierres avec bossages, les créneaux sont plus espacés, l’appareil beaucoup plus soigné que dans la partie inférieure […].
  2. Un oratoire (msalla), simple mur en maçonnerie blanchi à la chaux, avait été construit à la hâte sur une colline voisine, toute blanche de pâquerettes.

This word in other languages

build(English)construir(Español)bauen(Deutsch)construir(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cconstruire
  • cnostruire
  • connstruire
  • consrtuire
  • consstruire
  • constriure
  • constrruire
  • construier
  • construirre
  • construrie
  • consttruire
  • consturire
  • contsruire
  • cosntruire
  • ocnstruire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

cconstruire1cnostruire2connstruire1consrtuire2consstruire1constriure2constrruire1construier2
Edit distance from "construire"

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 "construire"?
"construire" is spelled C-O-N-S-T-R-U-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\.
What does "construire" mean?
As a verb, "construire" means: Bâtir, élever, avec de la pierre, du bois, du métal, etc., d’après un plan déterminé.
What words are commonly confused with "construire"?
"construire" is commonly confused with "contraire", "construit", "construis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "construire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "construire" is \kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "construire" come from?
"construire" 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 "construire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

permettant#1,711principaux#1,714transports#1,725françaises#1,662

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

étrangers15 variantspersonnages15 variantsdisponible15 variantsopérations15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list