erreur

\ɛ.ʁœʁ\

/\ɛ.ʁœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“erreur” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,026
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fausse opinion ; fausse doctrine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-erreur · erreur · French

erreur · rank #1,026 · 6 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,026
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH durée

Nearest frequency peer: durée (-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 « erreur »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « erreur » 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).

erreur vs error
67% similar
erreur vs Évreux
50% similar
erreur vs erreurs
86% similar

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

Key facts for erreur
PropertyValue
Headworderreur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ.ʁœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,026
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « erreur »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).erreurse 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 « durée » (#1,025), « espèce » (#1,027), « disent » (#1,024). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « erreur » est au #1,026. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around erreur (IPA \ɛ.ʁœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,026 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for erreur, with forms such as "ererur", "ereur", and "erreru". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "error", "Évreux", "erreurs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is erreur, spelled E-R-R-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fausse opinion ; fausse doctrine.
  2. 2
    Illusion, comme dans cette expression.
  3. 3
    Faute ; méprise.
  4. 4
    Action d’errer, au sens d'aller de-ci de-là, ou de voyager.
  5. 5
    État d'esprit qui tient pour vrai ce qui est faux et réciproquement.
  6. 6
    Il se prend quelquefois, au pluriel, pour dérèglement dans les mœurs.
  7. 7
    Différence entre la valeur exacte et la valeur mesurée, calculée ou estimée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La Foi qui sert de fondement à toutes les Religions n'est qu'un principe d’erreurs, d’illusions et d’impostures.
  2. A l'opposé de George Sand qui s'élevait volontiers au-dessus des contingences et, sévère pour les erreurs des autres, était pleine d’indulgence pour ses propres erreurs, s’absolvait de ses chutes en planant, Musset avait une grande puissance de contrition et, par sa nature, était « mea-culpiste ».

This word in other languages

error(English)error(Español)Irrtum(Deutsch)erro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ererur
  • ereur
  • erreru
  • erreurr
  • erruer
  • rereur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ererur2ereur1erreru2erreurr1erruer2rereur2
Edit distance from "erreur"

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 "erreur"?
"erreur" is spelled E-R-R-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.ʁœʁ\.
What does "erreur" mean?
As a noun, "erreur" means: Fausse opinion ; fausse doctrine.
What words are commonly confused with "erreur"?
"erreur" is commonly confused with "error", "Évreux", "erreurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "erreur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "erreur" is \ɛ.ʁœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "erreur" come from?
"erreur" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

espèce#1,027disent#1,024faible#1,028commun#1,022

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

radio6 variantsLyon6 variantslieux6 variantslettre6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list