fermière
\fɛʁ.mjɛʁ\
The verdict
“fermière” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,941
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agricultrice, personne qui travaille la terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fermiere · fermière · French
fermière · rank #43,941 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,941
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH February
Nearest frequency peer: February (-2 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 « fermière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Faulkner
Faulkner
56,065 corpus weight
- favela
favela
56,063 corpus weight
- February
February
56,062 corpus weight
- fermière
fermière
56,060 corpus weight
- Figeac
Figeac
56,057 corpus weight
- filtrée
filtrée
56,056 corpus weight
What this shows « fermière » 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 | fermière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.mjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fermière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fermière (IPA \fɛʁ.mjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,941 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fermière, with forms such as "efrmière", "femrière", and "ferimère". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ferrier", "fermiers", "ferrière", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fermière, spelled F-E-R-M-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Agricultrice, personne qui travaille la terre.
- 2Celle qui tient à ferme une propriété agricole.
- 3Celle qui prend des terres ou des droits à ferme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fermière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me désélégantise, je me désuavise, je vais devenir une vraie cuisinière, une fermière, ou tout ce que vous voudrez, et c’est effrayant à quel point je me trouve faite pour cela.
Pour avoir de beaux légumes, la fermière doit faire en sorte qu’ils n’aient jamais à souffrir de la sécheresse.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrmière
- femrière
- ferimère
- fermiere
- fermirèe
- fermièer
- fermièrre
- fermmière
- fermèire
- ferrmière
- ffermière
- fremière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fermière - 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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).