espère
\ɛs.pɛʁ\
The verdict
“espère” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #612
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de espérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espere · espère · French
espère · rank #612 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH esprit
Nearest frequency peer: esprit (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “espère”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bout
bout
99,392 corpus weight
- conditions
conditions
99,391 corpus weight
- esprit
esprit
99,390 corpus weight
- espère
espère
99,389 corpus weight
- garde
garde
99,388 corpus weight
- Internet
Internet
99,387 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “espère” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | espère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “espère” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around espère (IPA \ɛs.pɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #612 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for espère, with forms such as "epsère", "espere", and "esppère". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "ester", "expert", "expire", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 espère, spelled E-S-P-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de espérer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de espérer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de espérer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de espérer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de espérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça me motive et j’espère qu’on me le reproposera un jour.
Le chercheur espère toujours secrètement (sans vraiment y croire complètement) que ses activités de recherche (en terme d’investigations empiriques (et les interactions avec les acteurs qui vont avec) d’analyses, de descriptions, d’explications, sur un mode oral ou écrit) pourront contribuer à désaffaiblir les acteurs, à réduire leurs situations problémat…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsère
- espere
- esppère
- esprèe
- espèer
- espèrre
- esspère
- esèpre
- sepère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espère - 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 "espère", 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).
What to do next
You've looked up "espère". Here's where to go from here.
- "espère" maps to 17 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ester". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #612 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.