énergie
\e.nɛʁ.ʒi\
The verdict
“énergie” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #861
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Force en action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-energie · énergie · French
énergie · rank #861 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #861
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH voyage
Nearest frequency peer: voyage (-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 « énergie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- union
union
99,143 corpus weight
- V
V
99,142 corpus weight
- voyage
voyage
99,141 corpus weight
- énergie
énergie
99,140 corpus weight
- éviter
éviter
99,139 corpus weight
- articles
articles
99,137 corpus weight
What this shows « énergie » 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 | énergie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.nɛʁ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « énergie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around énergie (IPA \e.nɛʁ.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #861 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for énergie, with forms such as "energie", "néergie", and "éenrgie". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "énervé", "energy", "énervée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is énergie, spelled É-N-E-R-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Force en action.
- 2Vigueur de caractère, ardeur dans l’action.
- 3Application d’une force sur une distance, capacité d'action.
- 4Secteur industriel qui produit l'électricité et les carburants pour les besoins de l’économie.
- 5Production de ce secteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how énergie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'énergie hydraulique.
Ils manquent d'énergie pour continuer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- energie
- néergie
- éenrgie
- énegrie
- énergei
- énerggie
- énerige
- énerrgie
- énnergie
- énregie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of énergie - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).