héritière
\e.ʁi.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“héritière” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,161
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle que la loi appelle à recueillir une succession.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heritiere · héritière · French
héritière · rank #15,161 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,161
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hussein
Nearest frequency peer: Hussein (-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 « héritière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- huissier
huissier
84,843 corpus weight
- humanitaires
humanitaires
84,842 corpus weight
- Hussein
Hussein
84,841 corpus weight
- héritière
héritière
84,840 corpus weight
- imaginaires
imaginaires
84,839 corpus weight
- immunitaire
immunitaire
84,838 corpus weight
What this shows « héritière » 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 | héritière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁi.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « héritière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around héritière (IPA \e.ʁi.tjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,161 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for héritière, with forms such as "heritiere", "hhéritière", and "hréitière". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "héritiers", "hériter", "héritée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is héritière, spelled H-É-R-I-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle que la loi appelle à recueillir une succession.
- 2Fille unique qui doit hériter d’une grande succession.
- 3Détentrice d’une chose dont on hérite.
- 4Celle qui perpétue les traditions de ses prédécesseurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how héritière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ailleurs son vieil ami le notaire, sentant que la riche héritière épouserait nécessairement son neveu le président si Charles Grandet ne revenait pas, redoubla de soins et d’attentions : il venait tous les jours se mettre aux ordres de Grandet, allait à son commandement à Froidfond, aux terres, aux prés, aux vignes, vendait les récoltes, et transmutait…
Un moyen de relever sa maison lui a été offert, c’est un mariage avec une riche héritière qui apporterait à Yves de Mauléon des millions roturiers en échange de sa couronne ducale défleuronnée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- heritiere
- hhéritière
- hréitière
- héirtière
- hériitère
- héritirèe
- héritièer
- héritièrre
- hérittière
- héritèire
- hérritière
- hértiière
- éhritière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of héritière - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).