ferrière
\fɛ.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“ferrière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,342
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sac de cuir dans lequel on porte des outils de charron, de maréchal, de serrurier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferriere · ferrière · French
ferrière · rank #47,342 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,342
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH festifs
Nearest frequency peer: festifs (+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 « ferrière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Fatou
Fatou
52,662 corpus weight
- façonnée
façonnée
52,661 corpus weight
- ferrière
ferrière
52,659 corpus weight
- festifs
festifs
52,658 corpus weight
- fioritures
fioritures
52,657 corpus weight
- fléchi
fléchi
52,656 corpus weight
What this shows « ferrière » 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 | ferrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ferrière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ferrière (IPA \fɛ.ʁjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,342 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ferrière, with forms such as "efrrière", "ferirère", and "ferière". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "février", "ferries", "fourrière", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ferrière, spelled F-E-R-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sac de cuir dans lequel on porte des outils de charron, de maréchal, de serrurier.
- 2Extraction artisanale de minerai de fer, avant l’apparition des mines.
- 3Bouteille de métal dans laquelle on portait le vin à la table du roi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrrière
- ferirère
- ferière
- ferriere
- ferrirèe
- ferrièer
- ferrièrre
- ferrèire
- fferrière
- frerière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ferrière - 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 "ferrière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).