européen
\ø.ʁɔ.pe.ɛ̃\
The verdict
“européen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,391
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’Europe, comme continent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-europeen · européen · French
européen · rank #1,391 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,391
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH désolé
Nearest frequency peer: désolé (-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 « européen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capitale
capitale
98,613 corpus weight
- désolé
désolé
98,611 corpus weight
- européen
européen
98,610 corpus weight
- faveur
faveur
98,609 corpus weight
- front
front
98,608 corpus weight
- Marseille
Marseille
98,607 corpus weight
What this shows « européen » 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 | européen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ø.ʁɔ.pe.ɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « européen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around européen (IPA \ø.ʁɔ.pe.ɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,391 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for européen, with forms such as "eruopéen", "euorpéen", and "europeen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "européens", "européenne", "Europe", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is européen, spelled E-U-R-O-P-É-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’Europe, comme continent.
- 2Qui est situé en Europe.
- 3Relatif à l’Union européenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how européen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Personne de nous ne comprend un mot d’esquimau. Inutile d’ajouter que pour leur part nos deux naturels n’ont aucune idée d’un idiome européen.
Toutefois, si un magnanime sentiment de fraternité s’imposait sincèrement et définitivement, sans arrière-pensée, à tous les esprits européens, alors nous n’aurions pas à nous inquiéter du cosmopolitisme marseillais, intéressant embryon de la civilisation future.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eruopéen
- euorpéen
- europeen
- europeén
- europpéen
- européenn
- européne
- euroépen
- eurpoéen
- eurropéen
- ueropéen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of européen - 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 "européen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).