Fischer
\fi.ʃœʁ\
The verdict
“Fischer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,752
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine allemande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fischer · Fischer · French
Fischer · rank #18,752 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,752
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH filtrer
Nearest frequency peer: filtrer (-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 « Fischer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fervent
fervent
81,252 corpus weight
- ficelles
ficelles
81,251 corpus weight
- filtrer
filtrer
81,250 corpus weight
- Fischer
Fischer
81,249 corpus weight
- fish
fish
81,248 corpus weight
- flambeau
flambeau
81,247 corpus weight
What this shows « Fischer » 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 | Fischer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fi.ʃœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Fischer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Fischer (IPA \fi.ʃœʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,752 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine allemande.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Fischer, with forms such as "ffischer", "ficsher", and "fisccher". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "fisher", "fiche", "fiches", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Fischer, spelled F-I-S-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’origine allemande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Fischer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hortense, par une dissimulation dont se serait effrayée Lisbeth Fischer, si elle s’en était aperçue, se garda bien d’exprimer toute son admiration, quoiqu’elle éprouvât ce saisissement que ressentent les gens dont l’âme est ouverte au beau, quand ils voient un chef-d’œuvre sans défaut, complet, inattendu.
Les Charentais-Maritimes Pernelle Michon (Ilca 6) et Clément Péquin (49er, avec Erwan Fischer à la barre), tenteront de s’en approcher.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffischer
- ficsher
- fisccher
- fiscehr
- fischerr
- fischher
- fischre
- fishcer
- fisscher
- fsicher
- ifscher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Fischer - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).