espérons
\ɛs.pe.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“espérons” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,035. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,035
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de espérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-esperons · espérons · French
espérons · rank #5,035 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,035
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espoirs
Nearest frequency peer: espoirs (-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 « espérons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Espagnols
Espagnols
94,968 corpus weight
- espoirs
espoirs
94,967 corpus weight
- espérons
espérons
94,966 corpus weight
- expansion
expansion
94,965 corpus weight
- extérieure
extérieure
94,964 corpus weight
- facilité
facilité
94,963 corpus weight
What this shows « espérons » 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 | espérons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛs.pe.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espérons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around espérons (IPA \ɛs.pe.ʁɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,035 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for espérons, with forms such as "epsérons", "esperons", and "esppérons". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "espions", "éperon", "espères", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is espérons, spelled E-S-P-É-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de espérer.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de espérer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espérons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses habitants se sont laissé saxoniser de langue au siècle dernier, mais nous espérons que leurs cœurs sont restés bretons.
Cette action « représente un grand pas en avant qui, espérons-le, aura un fort effet dissuasif sur ces actions illégales », a déclaré la coordinatrice de l’association BirdLife, Melpo Apostolidou.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsérons
- esperons
- esppérons
- espréons
- espéorns
- espérnos
- espéronns
- espéronss
- espérosn
- espérrons
- esspérons
- eséprons
- sepérons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espérons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).