ferroviaire
\fɛ.ʁɔ.vjɛʁ\
The verdict
“ferroviaire” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,505. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,505
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux chemins de fer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ferroviaire · ferroviaire · French
ferroviaire · rank #6,505 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,505
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH existant
Nearest frequency peer: existant (-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 « ferroviaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exclusif
exclusif
93,499 corpus weight
- exil
exil
93,498 corpus weight
- existant
existant
93,497 corpus weight
- ferroviaire
ferroviaire
93,496 corpus weight
- Floride
Floride
93,495 corpus weight
- fournisseurs
fournisseurs
93,494 corpus weight
What this shows « ferroviaire » 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 | ferroviaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɛ.ʁɔ.vjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ferroviaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ferroviaire (IPA \fɛ.ʁɔ.vjɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,505 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ferroviaire, with forms such as "efrroviaire", "ferorviaire", and "feroviaire". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ferroviaires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ferroviaire, spelled F-E-R-R-O-V-I-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux chemins de fer.
- 2Relatif au système de transport par voie ferrée, à son organisation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ferroviaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 7 mai au matin, 151 bombardiers américains reçoivent la mission de détruire les installations ferroviaires de Mohon ; quatre-vingt-cinq réussissent à larguer tout ou partie de leurs mortelles cargaisons : […].
De plus, elle est placée relativement tôt à la tête d’un réseau ferroviaire très étendu auquel Québec ne sera intégrée qu’en 1879.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrroviaire
- ferorviaire
- feroviaire
- ferroivaire
- ferrovaiire
- ferroviaier
- ferroviairre
- ferroviarie
- ferroviiare
- ferrovviaire
- ferrvoiaire
- fferroviaire
- freroviaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ferroviaire - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).