Érasme
\e.ʁasm\
The verdict
“Érasme” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,091
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erasme · Érasme · French
Érasme · rank #41,091 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,091
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH Épiphanie
Nearest frequency peer: Épiphanie (-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 « Érasme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- écrivaient
écrivaient
58,914 corpus weight
- Éloi
Éloi
58,913 corpus weight
- élégamment
élégamment
58,912 corpus weight
- Épiphanie
Épiphanie
58,911 corpus weight
- Érasme
Érasme
58,910 corpus weight
- ésotérisme
ésotérisme
58,909 corpus weight
What this shows « Érasme » 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 | Érasme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁasm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Érasme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Érasme (IPA \e.ʁasm\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,091 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Érasme, with forms such as "erasme", "réasme", and "éarsme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Erasmus", "écrasé", "érable", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Érasme, spelled É-R-A-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erasme
- réasme
- éarsme
- éramse
- érasem
- érasmme
- érassme
- érrasme
- érsame
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Érasme - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Érasme", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).