enchères
\ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“enchères” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,685
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de enchère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-encheres · enchères · French
enchères · rank #7,685 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,685
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH effondrement
Nearest frequency peer: effondrement (-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 « enchères »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doctorat
doctorat
92,319 corpus weight
- déroulement
déroulement
92,318 corpus weight
- effondrement
effondrement
92,317 corpus weight
- enchères
enchères
92,316 corpus weight
- ennui
ennui
92,315 corpus weight
- ensembles
ensembles
92,314 corpus weight
What this shows « enchères » 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 | enchères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enchères »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around enchères (IPA \ɑ̃.ʃɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,685 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de enchère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for enchères, with forms such as "ecnhères", "encchères", and "encheres". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "encres", "entières", "enchère", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is enchères, spelled E-N-C-H-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de enchère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enchères appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mettre aux enchères les emplois, les honneurs, etc.
Ah ! La fièvre des enchères ! Elle produit les mêmes effets que la fièvre du jeu : on oublie, devant ce tapis vert, qu'un louis vaut vingt francs et que vingt francs représentent le pain de huit jours pour une famille de six personnes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnhères
- encchères
- encheres
- enchhères
- enchrèes
- enchèers
- enchèress
- enchèrres
- enchèrse
- encèhres
- enhcères
- ennchères
- nechères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enchères - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enchères", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).