Führer
\fy.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“Führer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,414
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Toujours précédé de l’article défini le) Titre officiel pris par Adolf Hitler en 1934, combinant le titre de chancelier et de président de l’Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fuhrer · Führer · French
Führer · rank #32,414 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,414
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH furtif
Nearest frequency peer: furtif (-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 « Führer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- finalisé
finalisé
67,591 corpus weight
- fjord
fjord
67,590 corpus weight
- fumait
fumait
67,589 corpus weight
- furtif
furtif
67,588 corpus weight
- Führer
Führer
67,587 corpus weight
- gail
gail
67,585 corpus weight
What this shows « Führer » 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 | Führer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fy.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Führer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Führer (IPA \fy.ʁœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,414 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Toujours précédé de l’article défini le) Titre officiel pris par Adolf Hitler en 1934, combinant le titre de chancelier et de président de l’Allemagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Führer, with forms such as "fführer", "fhürer", and "füherr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "fumer", "furet", "fureur", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Führer, spelled F-Ü-H-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1(Toujours précédé de l’article défini le) Titre officiel pris par Adolf Hitler en 1934, combinant le titre de chancelier et de président de l’Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Führer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et voilà que je me rappelle les cortèges de gueux qu’on menait en musique, le 1ᵉʳ mai, à Tempelhof, jurer fidélité au Führer. Avec quelle joie, avec quelle foi elles clamaient le Horst-Wessel-Lied, l’hymne hitlérien, ces gueules blêmes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fführer
- fhürer
- füherr
- fühhrer
- führerr
- führre
- führrer
- fürher
- üfhrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Führer - 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 "Führer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).