froideur
\fʁwa.dœʁ\
The verdict
“froideur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,782
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui manque de chaleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-froideur · froideur · French
froideur · rank #29,782 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,782
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH franciliens
Nearest frequency peer: franciliens (-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 « froideur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fouler
fouler
70,222 corpus weight
- franciliens
franciliens
70,220 corpus weight
- froideur
froideur
70,219 corpus weight
- Frontenac
Frontenac
70,218 corpus weight
- Fuji
Fuji
70,217 corpus weight
- félins
félins
70,216 corpus weight
What this shows « froideur » 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 | froideur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁwa.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « froideur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around froideur (IPA \fʁwa.dœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,782 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for froideur, with forms such as "ffroideur", "forideur", and "friodeur". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "frondeur", "frondeurs", "froide", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is froideur, spelled F-R-O-I-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui manque de chaleur.
- 2Froid accueil, indifférence, et dans ce sens, il peut s’employer au pluriel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how froideur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La froideur de l’eau, du marbre, du temps.
La froideur de la vieillesse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffroideur
- forideur
- friodeur
- frodieur
- froiddeur
- froideru
- froideurr
- froiduer
- froiedur
- frroideur
- rfoideur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of froideur - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "froideur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).