fiers
\fjɛʁ\
The verdict
“fiers” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,616
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de fier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fiers · fiers · French
fiers · rank #6,616 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,616
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH favoris
Nearest frequency peer: favoris (-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 « fiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- envoyée
envoyée
93,388 corpus weight
- estomac
estomac
93,387 corpus weight
- favoris
favoris
93,386 corpus weight
- fiers
fiers
93,385 corpus weight
- foyers
foyers
93,384 corpus weight
- futures
futures
93,383 corpus weight
What this shows « fiers » 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 | fiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fiers (IPA \fjɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,616 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de fier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fiers, with forms such as "feirs", "ffiers", and "fierrs". 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, "fis", "frs", "fils", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fiers, spelled F-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de fier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux côtés des fiers palmiers se dévoilent quantités de parfums : bouquets d’agrumes, géraniums flamboyants, senteurs de pain d’épices et de miel de l’héliotrope, effluves d’ananas et de sauge, odeurs de fleurs d’oranger, de citronnier, de mandarinier, de verveine citronnée.
La capitale du nord n’a pas le moindre monument, mais elle se glorifie de posséder un arbre, le seul qu’il y ait en Islande; c’est un frêne d'environ cinq mètres de haut, ombrageant la façade d’une maison tournée vers le fjord. Les indigènes en sont extrêmement fiers et le montrent comme la grande curiosité du pays.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feirs
- ffiers
- fierrs
- fierss
- fiesr
- fires
- ifers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fiers - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).