fières
\fjɛʁ\
The verdict
“fières” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,689. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,689
- 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 pluriel de fier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fieres · fières · French
fières · rank #33,689 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,689
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH forgée
Nearest frequency peer: forgée (+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 « fières »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Finlandaise
Finlandaise
66,316 corpus weight
- fiole
fiole
66,315 corpus weight
- fiorentina
fiorentina
66,314 corpus weight
- fières
fières
66,312 corpus weight
- forgée
forgée
66,311 corpus weight
- fortificati…
fortification
66,310 corpus weight
What this shows « fières » 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 | fières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fières »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fières (IPA \fjɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,689 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de fier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fières, with forms such as "ffières", "fieres", and "firèes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fire", "frère", "fiers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fières, spelled F-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de fier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pures, fières de leur royauté virginale, de leur couronne d’inconquis, ne comprirent pas que suivre les Regards doublerait au lieu de défleuronner leur diadème ; elles avaient, d’ailleurs, peur des franchises, et marchaient la tête haute d’orgueil, sans voir les bas pièges du Mensonge, lequel les enveloppait de flatteries, d’embûches, et les réduisait…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffières
- fieres
- firèes
- fièers
- fièress
- fièrres
- fièrse
- fèires
- ifères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fières - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).