épiderme
\e.pi.dɛʁm\
The verdict
“épiderme” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,233. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,233
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la peau qui couvre le derme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epiderme · épiderme · French
épiderme · rank #26,233 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #26,233
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épicier
Nearest frequency peer: épicier (-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 « épiderme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- émeut
émeut
73,771 corpus weight
- épi
épi
73,770 corpus weight
- épicier
épicier
73,769 corpus weight
- épiderme
épiderme
73,768 corpus weight
- épis
épis
73,767 corpus weight
- étagères
étagères
73,766 corpus weight
What this shows « épiderme » 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 | épiderme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pi.dɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « épiderme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around épiderme (IPA \e.pi.dɛʁm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,233 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 épiderme, with forms such as "epiderme", "péiderme", and "éipderme". 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, "épicerie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 épiderme, spelled É-P-I-D-E-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de la peau qui couvre le derme.
- 2Couche cellulaire superficielle des organes des plantes, assurant une fonction de protection contre les agressions extérieures et la déshydratation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épiderme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Près de trois semaines s’écoulent ; et des cloches se forment et crèvent, en rendant, du sang et de l’eau ; puis l’épiderme se tigre de taches jaunes, le suintement cesse et alors l’huile sort, blanche, limpide, parfumée, […].
Cet homme a l’épiderme sensible : Il s’offense, il se blesse facilement.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epiderme
- péiderme
- éipderme
- épdierme
- épidderme
- épidemre
- épiderem
- épidermme
- épiderrme
- épidreme
- épiedrme
- éppiderme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of épiderme - 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
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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).