fermer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,424
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fermer is aFrenchverb. It means: Clore ce qui était ouvert, par une porte, un couvercle, une trappe, etc. Pronounced \fɛʁ.me\. It ranks #2,424 in French word frequency. Often confused with forme and fumer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fermer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for fermer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,424 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fermer, with forms such as "efrmer", "femrer", and "feremr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "forme", "fumer", "firme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fermer, spelled F-E-R-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Clore ce qui était ouvert, par une porte, un couvercle, une trappe, etc.
- 2Clore un édifice, un établissement, un lieu de réunion, etc., en vue d'interrompre ce qui s'y faisait, momentanément ou définitivement.
- 3Interdire ; mettre en interdiction.
- 4Cesser un commerce, une occupation.
- 5Boucher une ouverture, une entrée, un passage et se dit en parlant des objets qui servent à la clôture.
- 6Interrompre un passage, le rendre impossible ou très difficile.
- 7Empêcher, par une résistance, par une défense quelconque, l’accès, l’entrée ou la sortie.
- 8Enclore.
- 9Rapprocher l’une contre l'autre des parties dont l’écartement formait une ouverture.
- 10Clore, arrêter, terminer.
- 11Être clos, se clore.
- 12Éteindre.
- 13Se renfermer sur soi-même, stopper tout dialogue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: efrmer,femrer,feremr,fermerr,fermmer,fermre,ferrmer,ffermer,fremer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fermer
Misspelling Variants of "fermer"
Frequency rank: #2,424 in French
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