forestier
\fɔ.ʁɛs.tje\
The verdict
“forestier” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,054
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les forêts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-forestier · forestier · French
forestier · rank #11,054 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,054
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fondu
Nearest frequency peer: fondu (-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 « forestier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Florent
Florent
88,950 corpus weight
- fondements
fondements
88,949 corpus weight
- fondu
fondu
88,948 corpus weight
- forestier
forestier
88,947 corpus weight
- forums
forums
88,946 corpus weight
- fouille
fouille
88,945 corpus weight
What this shows « forestier » 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 | forestier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fɔ.ʁɛs.tje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « forestier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around forestier (IPA \fɔ.ʁɛs.tje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,054 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for forestier, with forms such as "fforestier", "foerstier", and "foresiter". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Fortier", "Forster", "forestière", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is forestier, spelled F-O-R-E-S-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les forêts.
- 2Qui a quelque charge ou quelque fonction dans les forêts de l’état ou des communes.
- 3Qualifie un plat qui incorpore des champignons.
- 4Relatif à La Forêt-du-Temple, commune française située dans le département de la Creuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how forestier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’écorce de chêne, employée pour le tannage des cuirs, est un élément important de la richesse forestière du département.
Sur la presqu’île d’Arvert jusqu’à la Gironde, des kilomètres de plages, de dunes blondes et de sentiers forestiers font la joie des promeneurs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforestier
- foerstier
- foresiter
- foresstier
- foresteir
- forestierr
- forestire
- foresttier
- foretsier
- forrestier
- forsetier
- froestier
- ofrestier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forestier - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).