Erdre

\ɛʁdʁ\

/\ɛʁdʁ\/ name

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The verdict

“Erdre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,589. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#45,589
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière tributaire de la Loire à Nantes.

Corpus desk

Index FR-erdre · Erdre · French

Erdre · rank #45,589 · 7 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,589
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH errent

Nearest frequency peer: errent (+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 « Erdre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Erdre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Erdre vs etre
40% similar
Erdre vs erre
60% similar
Erdre vs étire
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Erdre
PropertyValue
HeadwordErdre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ɛʁdʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#45,589
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Erdre »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Erdrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « errent » (#45,590), « ensuivit » (#45,587), « essouffle » (#45,592). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « Erdre » est au #45,589. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around Erdre (IPA \ɛʁdʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #45,589 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Rivière tributaire de la Loire à Nantes.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Erdre, with forms such as "edrre", "erddre", and "erder". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "etre", "erre", "étire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 Erdre, spelled E-R-D-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rivière tributaire de la Loire à Nantes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Erdre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. François Iᵉʳ disait d'elle que c'est « la plus belle rivière de France ». Traversant la cité des ducs, l’Erdre fait partie intégrante du paysage nantais.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • edrre
  • erddre
  • erder
  • erdrre
  • errde
  • errdre
  • redre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Erdre - 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.

edrre2erddre1erder2erdrre1errde2errdre1redre2
Edit distance from "Erdre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Erdre"?
"Erdre" is spelled E-R-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛʁdʁ\.
What does "Erdre" mean?
As a proper noun, "Erdre" means: Rivière tributaire de la Loire à Nantes.
What words are commonly confused with "Erdre"?
"Erdre" is commonly confused with "etre", "erre", "étire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Erdre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Erdre" is \ɛʁdʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Erdre" come from?
"Erdre" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Erdre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fatma#45,610ducon#45,561Dubuc#45,560Gaius#45,634

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

errent7 variantscaïds7 variantsjalon7 variantsjarret7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list