émérite
\e.me.ʁit\
The verdict
“émérite” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,514
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui, ayant exercé un emploi pendant un certain temps, le quitte pour jouir des honneurs et de la récompense dus à ses services.
Corpus desk
Index FR-emerite · émérite · French
émérite · rank #21,514 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,514
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élabore
Nearest frequency peer: élabore (-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 « émérite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- échéances
échéances
78,490 corpus weight
- écolos
écolos
78,489 corpus weight
- élabore
élabore
78,488 corpus weight
- émérite
émérite
78,487 corpus weight
- énigmatique
énigmatique
78,486 corpus weight
- épaisses
épaisses
78,485 corpus weight
What this shows « émérite » 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 | émérite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.me.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émérite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around émérite (IPA \e.me.ʁit\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,514 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for émérite, with forms such as "emerite", "méérite", and "émmérite". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "émeute", "emprise", "éternité", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is émérite, spelled É-M-É-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui, ayant exercé un emploi pendant un certain temps, le quitte pour jouir des honneurs et de la récompense dus à ses services.
- 2Qui est remarquable dans quelque science ou dans la pratique de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how émérite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Professeur émérite.
Après sa démission jeudi, Benoît XVI se fera appeler « sa sainteté Benoît XVI, pape émérite » ou « sa sainteté Benoît XVI, pontife romain émérite », a annoncé le porte-parole du Saint-Siège, le père Federico Lombardi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emerite
- méérite
- émmérite
- émréite
- éméirte
- émériet
- éméritte
- émérrite
- émértie
- éémrite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émérite - 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 "émérite", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).