fermée
\fɛʁ.me\
The verdict
“fermée” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,758
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de fermé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermee · fermée · French
fermée · rank #4,758 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,758
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Figaro
Nearest frequency peer: Figaro (+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 « fermée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fabrique
fabrique
95,246 corpus weight
- familial
familial
95,245 corpus weight
- fermée
fermée
95,243 corpus weight
- Figaro
Figaro
95,242 corpus weight
- flash
flash
95,241 corpus weight
- futurs
futurs
95,240 corpus weight
What this shows « fermée » 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 | fermée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fermée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fermée (IPA \fɛʁ.me\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,758 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de fermé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fermée, with forms such as "efrmée", "femrée", and "fermee". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "free", "forme", "fumée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fermée, spelled F-E-R-M-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de fermé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrmée
- femrée
- fermee
- fermeé
- fermmée
- ferrmée
- feréme
- ffermée
- fremée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fermée - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fermée", 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).