employer
\ɑ̃.plwa.je\
The verdict
“employer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,700
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utiliser ; user ; se servir de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-employer · employer · French
employer · rank #8,700 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,700
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH efficacement
Nearest frequency peer: efficacement (-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 « employer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- désagréable
désagréable
91,305 corpus weight
- détaillée
détaillée
91,304 corpus weight
- détecter
détecter
91,303 corpus weight
- efficacement
efficacement
91,302 corpus weight
- employer
employer
91,301 corpus weight
- enregistrée
enregistrée
91,299 corpus weight
What this shows « employer » 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 | employer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.plwa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « employer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around employer (IPA \ɑ̃.plwa.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,700 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for employer, with forms such as "emlpoyer", "emmployer", and "emplloyer". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "employés", "explorer", "exploser", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is employer, spelled E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Utiliser ; user ; se servir de.
- 2S’en servir en parlant ou en écrivant, en parlant d'une phrase, d'un mot ou d'une locution.
- 3Pourvoir d’une occupation ou d’un travail pour son usage ou pour son profit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how employer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sucre était connu des anciens qui ne l’employaient qu'en très-petite quantité et comme médicament ; il y a 200 ans à peine, il se vendait seulement chez les pharmaciens, à un prix très-élevé.
On sait que l’emploi du fer fut inconnu de toute l’Amérique avant l’arrivée de Colomb. […]. Parfois cependant le fer météorique est employé accidentellement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlpoyer
- emmployer
- emplloyer
- emploeyr
- employerr
- employre
- employyer
- emplyoer
- empolyer
- empployer
- epmloyer
- meployer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of employer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "employer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).