éphémère
\e.fe.mɛʁ\
The verdict
“éphémère” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,771. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,771
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne dure qu’un jour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ephemere · éphémère · French
éphémère · rank #9,771 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,771
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH égyptien
Nearest frequency peer: égyptien (-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 « éphémère »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- XVIe
XVIe
90,233 corpus weight
- égyptien
égyptien
90,231 corpus weight
- éphémère
éphémère
90,230 corpus weight
- équipée
équipée
90,229 corpus weight
- abondance
abondance
90,228 corpus weight
- abords
abords
90,227 corpus weight
What this shows « éphémère » 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 | éphémère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.fe.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « éphémère »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around éphémère (IPA \e.fe.mɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,771 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for éphémère, with forms such as "ephemere", "péhémère", and "éhpémère". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "éphémères", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is éphémère, spelled É-P-H-É-M-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne dure qu’un jour.
- 2Qui n’a qu’une très courte durée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how éphémère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Insecte éphémère. Fleur éphémère. Fièvre éphémère.
J’admirais dans les gouttières quelques végétations éphémères, pauvres herbes bientôt emportées par un orage !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ephemere
- péhémère
- éhpémère
- éphhémère
- éphméère
- éphémmère
- éphémrèe
- éphémèer
- éphémèrre
- éphéèmre
- épphémère
- épéhmère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éphémère - 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 "éphémère", 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).