extérieur
\ɛk.ste.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“extérieur” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,361
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas dans un espace, dans un domaine, dans une thématique donnés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exterieur · extérieur · French
extérieur · rank #1,361 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,361
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH disait
Nearest frequency peer: disait (-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 « extérieur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contexte
contexte
98,643 corpus weight
- dessous
dessous
98,642 corpus weight
- disait
disait
98,641 corpus weight
- extérieur
extérieur
98,640 corpus weight
- faudra
faudra
98,639 corpus weight
- gueule
gueule
98,638 corpus weight
What this shows « extérieur » 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 | extérieur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.ste.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « extérieur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around extérieur (IPA \ɛk.ste.ʁjœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,361 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for extérieur, with forms such as "etxérieur", "exterieur", and "extréieur". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "extérieure", "extérieurs", "extérieures", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is extérieur, spelled E-X-T-É-R-I-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas dans un espace, dans un domaine, dans une thématique donnés.
- 2Qui n’est pas dans un bâtiment. Qui est au dehors, à l’air libre.
- 3Situé plus près d’une extrémité.
- 4Hors du pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how extérieur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jamais la droite ne se mouvait sans que l’œil droit examinât les circonstances extérieures avec cette rapidité placide particulière au voleur et à l’espion.
Les activités extérieures sont populaires durant l’été.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxérieur
- exterieur
- extréieur
- exttérieur
- extéireur
- extéreiur
- extérieru
- extérieurr
- extériuer
- extérrieur
- exxtérieur
- exétrieur
- xetérieur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of extérieur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "extérieur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).