érudit
\e.ʁy.di\
The verdict
“érudit” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,329. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,329
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a de l’érudition, un grand savoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-erudit · érudit · French
érudit · rank #20,329 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,329
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH épine
Nearest frequency peer: épine (-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 « érudit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- électricien
électricien
79,677 corpus weight
- élevages
élevages
79,676 corpus weight
- émotionnell…
émotionnellement
79,674 corpus weight
- épine
épine
79,673 corpus weight
- érudit
érudit
79,672 corpus weight
- évitent
évitent
79,671 corpus weight
What this shows « érudit » 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 | érudit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \e.ʁy.di\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « érudit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around érudit (IPA \e.ʁy.di\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,329 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a de l’érudition, un grand savoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for érudit, with forms such as "erudit", "érrudit", and "éruddit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "étudié", "étudia", "érudits", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is érudit, spelled É-R-U-D-I-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a de l’érudition, un grand savoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how érudit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut avouer qu’un érudit naturaliste est presque aussi rare qu’un naturaliste érudit.
Descartes eut le bonheur de rencontrer deux adversaires puissants, Gassendi et Hobbes, l’un le plus érudit et le plus habile, l’autre le plus radical et le plus conséquent des sensualistes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erudit
- érrudit
- éruddit
- éruditt
- érudti
- éruidt
- éurdit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of érudit - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).