corrompre
\kɔ.ʁɔ̃pʁ\
The verdict
“corrompre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,814. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,814
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâter, altérer, changer en mal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corrompre · corrompre · French
corrompre · rank #23,814 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,814
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH corrida
Nearest frequency peer: corrida (-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 « corrompre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- consulaires
consulaires
76,190 corpus weight
- copilote
copilote
76,189 corpus weight
- corrida
corrida
76,188 corpus weight
- corrompre
corrompre
76,187 corpus weight
- corrompue
corrompue
76,186 corpus weight
- corrosion
corrosion
76,185 corpus weight
What this shows « corrompre » 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 | corrompre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ.ʁɔ̃pʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « corrompre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around corrompre (IPA \kɔ.ʁɔ̃pʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,814 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for corrompre, with forms such as "ccorrompre", "corompre", and "corormpre". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "corrompu", "corrompt", "corrompus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 corrompre, spelled C-O-R-R-O-M-P-R-E.
Definition
- 1Gâter, altérer, changer en mal.
- 2Séduire, débaucher.
- 3Engager quelqu'un par des dons, des promesses, ou par d'autres moyens, à faire, ou ne pas faire, quelque chose contre son devoir, sa conscience, contre l'honneur, etc.
- 4Plier, rompre à force de plier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corrompre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il allait quelquefois chez Zadig, et se mettait à table sans être prié : il y corrompait toute la joie de la société, comme on dit que les harpies infectent les viandes qu'elles touchent.
Le bonheur de t'avoir est toujours corrompu par la perspective de te perdre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccorrompre
- corompre
- corormpre
- corrmopre
- corrommpre
- corromper
- corromppre
- corromprre
- corromrpe
- corropmre
- crorompre
- ocrrompre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of corrompre - 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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).