économique
\e.kɔ.nɔ.mik\
The verdict
“économique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #712
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui diminue les frais ou la dépense.
Corpus desk
Index FR-economique · économique · French
économique · rank #712 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #712
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH activité
Nearest frequency peer: activité (+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 « économique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- position
position
99,292 corpus weight
- république
république
99,291 corpus weight
- économique
économique
99,289 corpus weight
- activité
activité
99,288 corpus weight
- américain
américain
99,287 corpus weight
- association
association
99,286 corpus weight
What this shows « économique » 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 | économique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.kɔ.nɔ.mik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « économique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around économique (IPA \e.kɔ.nɔ.mik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #712 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for économique, with forms such as "céonomique", "economique", and "écconomique". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "économise", "économiste", "économiques", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is économique, spelled É-C-O-N-O-M-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui diminue les frais ou la dépense.
- 2Qui concerne l’économie ou au gouvernement d’un ménage, d’une maison.
- 3Relatif à l’économie politique ; économicopolitique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how économique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’hésitez pas à vous rendre chez un réparateur informatique pour demander un devis. C'est souvent plus économique que d’acheter un nouvel ordinateur.
Le fait maison est aussi dans l'air du temps pour des raisons économiques. Il coûte moins cher de préparer de bons petits plats home made que d'acheter du tout fait.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- céonomique
- economique
- écconomique
- écnoomique
- éconmoique
- éconnomique
- éconoimque
- économiqeu
- économiqque
- économiuqe
- économmique
- économqiue
- écoonmique
- éocnomique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of économique - 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.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).