firmament

\fiʁ.ma.mɑ̃\

/\fiʁ.ma.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“firmament” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,340. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,340
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sphère au-dessus des planètes qui environne la terre et à laquelle les étoiles fixes sont considérées attachées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-firmament · firmament · French

firmament · rank #42,340 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,340
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH finissaient

Nearest frequency peer: finissaient (-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 « firmament »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « firmament » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

firmament vs formaient
78% similar
firmament vs filament
78% similar
firmament vs fermement
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for firmament
PropertyValue
Headwordfirmament
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fiʁ.ma.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#42,340
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « firmament »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).firmamentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « finissaient » (#42,339), « Fitzpatrick » (#42,341), « figés » (#42,338). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « firmament » est au #42,340. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around firmament (IPA \fiʁ.ma.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,340 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for firmament, with forms such as "ffirmament", "fimrament", and "firamment". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "formaient", "filament", "fermement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is firmament, spelled F-I-R-M-A-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sphère au-dessus des planètes qui environne la terre et à laquelle les étoiles fixes sont considérées attachées.
  2. 2
    Ciel.
  3. 3
    Le point le plus haut de quelque chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how firmament appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. FIRMAMENT ou LE HUITIÈME CIEL, LE CIEL DES ÉTOILES FIXES. Quelques anciens astronomes imaginoient un ciel ou une sphère pour chacune des sept planètes, et le huitième étoit celui où l’on croyoit que les étoiles fixes étoient attachées.
  2. […] ; tandis que les yeux du jeune Écossais, s’ils ne cherchaient pas le firmament, comme ceux d’un astrologue, s’élevaient sans cesse vers les fenêtres et les balcons de toutes les tourelles qui flanquaient le vieil édifice, pour tâcher d’y découvrir sa Cynosure.

This word in other languages

firmament(English)firmamento(Español)Firmament(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ffirmament
  • fimrament
  • firamment
  • firmaemnt
  • firmamennt
  • firmamentt
  • firmametn
  • firmamment
  • firmamnet
  • firmmaent
  • firmmament
  • firrmament
  • frimament
  • ifrmament

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of firmament - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ffirmament1fimrament2firamment2firmaemnt2firmamennt1firmamentt1firmametn2firmamment1
Edit distance from "firmament"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "firmament"?
"firmament" is spelled F-I-R-M-A-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fiʁ.ma.mɑ̃\.
What does "firmament" mean?
As a noun, "firmament" means: Sphère au-dessus des planètes qui environne la terre et à laquelle les étoiles fixes sont considérées attachées.
What words are commonly confused with "firmament"?
"firmament" is commonly confused with "formaient", "filament", "fermement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "firmament"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "firmament" is \fiʁ.ma.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "firmament" come from?
"firmament" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "firmament", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

flamandes#42,342feuilleté#42,337flambeaux#42,343fatalisme#42,334

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

finissaient14 variantsengranger14 variantsenfonçant14 variantsencercler14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list