exterminer
\ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.ne\
The verdict
“exterminer” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,539. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,539
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détruire jusqu’à l’anéantissement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exterminer · exterminer · French
exterminer · rank #19,539 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,539
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH faisabilité
Nearest frequency peer: faisabilité (+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 « exterminer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ernst
ernst
80,465 corpus weight
- excitée
excitée
80,464 corpus weight
- exterminer
exterminer
80,462 corpus weight
- faisabilité
faisabilité
80,461 corpus weight
- fatiguer
fatiguer
80,460 corpus weight
- fellation
fellation
80,459 corpus weight
What this shows « exterminer » 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 | exterminer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exterminer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around exterminer (IPA \ɛk.stɛʁ.mi.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,539 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Détruire jusqu’à l’anéantissement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for exterminer, with forms such as "etxerminer", "exetrminer", and "extemriner". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "exterminés", "entériner", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is exterminer, spelled E-X-T-E-R-M-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Détruire jusqu’à l’anéantissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exterminer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il […] se faisait fort de créer, pour le roi et le pape, une armée de quarante-quatre mille dévoués, chevaliers de l’infaillibilité papale, pour exterminer, de concert avec l'Espagne, les Turcs et les jansénistes.
Hollmann rapporte le cas d'un octopus se rappelant sa lutte avec un homard. En effet, ce dernier fut exterminé par l’octopus qui avait escaladé une cloison verticale pour arriver à lui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxerminer
- exetrminer
- extemriner
- exterimner
- extermienr
- exterminerr
- exterminner
- exterminre
- extermminer
- extermnier
- exterrminer
- extreminer
- extterminer
- exxterminer
- xeterminer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exterminer - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).