funèbre
\fy.nɛbʁ\
The verdict
“funèbre” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,759. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,759
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux funérailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-funebre · funèbre · French
funèbre · rank #18,759 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,759
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fumées
Nearest frequency peer: fumées (-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 « funèbre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- forger
forger
81,245 corpus weight
- franchises
franchises
81,244 corpus weight
- fumées
fumées
81,243 corpus weight
- funèbre
funèbre
81,242 corpus weight
- gardienne
gardienne
81,241 corpus weight
- gauchistes
gauchistes
81,240 corpus weight
What this shows « funèbre » 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 | funèbre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \fy.nɛbʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « funèbre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around funèbre (IPA \fy.nɛbʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,759 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for funèbre, with forms such as "ffunèbre", "fnuèbre", and "funbère". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "funeste", "funèbres", "fenêtre", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 funèbre, spelled F-U-N-È-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux funérailles.
- 2Qui est lugubre ; qui éveille l’idée de la mort.
- 3Qualifie certains oiseaux nocturnes, dont le cri a quelque chose de sinistre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how funèbre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les convois funèbres se succédaient, avec leurs escortes de sous-officiers boueux et de rosses efflanquées.
L'Erèbe les eût pris pour ses coursiers funèbres, S'ils pouvaient au servage incliner leur fierté. – Charles Baudelaire [1821-1867], "Les chats", in Les Fleurs du mal (1857).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffunèbre
- fnuèbre
- funbère
- funebre
- funnèbre
- funèbbre
- funèber
- funèbrre
- funèrbe
- fuènbre
- ufnèbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of funèbre - 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
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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).