épouse
\e.puz\
The verdict
“épouse” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,208. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,208
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme, dans le mariage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epouse · épouse · French
épouse · rank #2,208 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,208
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élément
Nearest frequency peer: élément (-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 « épouse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Vienne
Vienne
97,796 corpus weight
- vive
vive
97,795 corpus weight
- élément
élément
97,794 corpus weight
- épouse
épouse
97,793 corpus weight
- établisseme…
établissements
97,792 corpus weight
- aiment
aiment
97,791 corpus weight
What this shows « épouse » 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 | épouse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.puz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « épouse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around épouse (IPA \e.puz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,208 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme, dans le mariage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for épouse, with forms such as "epouse", "péouse", and "éopuse". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "époux", "excuse", "exposé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 épouse, spelled É-P-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme, dans le mariage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La scène de la réconciliation, où Béatrix fit rejurer haine à l’épouse qui jouait, dit-elle, la comédie du lait répandu, se passa dans un vrai bocage où elle minaudait environnée de fleurs ravissantes, de jardinières d’un luxe effréné.
Alors, comme personne ne voulait plus d’elle pour épouse, elle s’était réfugiée là, dans la vieille maison de son frère et y vivait avec sa tante aveugle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epouse
- péouse
- éopuse
- éposue
- époues
- épousse
- éppouse
- épuose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of épouse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).