héritiers
\e.ʁi.tje\
The verdict
“héritiers” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,851
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de héritier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-heritiers · héritiers · French
héritiers · rank #9,851 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,851
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH halte
Nearest frequency peer: halte (-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 « héritiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- golden
golden
90,153 corpus weight
- halte
halte
90,151 corpus weight
- héritiers
héritiers
90,150 corpus weight
- impliquer
impliquer
90,149 corpus weight
- inconvénien…
inconvénients
90,148 corpus weight
- Indonésie
Indonésie
90,147 corpus weight
What this shows « héritiers » 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 | héritiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ʁi.tje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « héritiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around héritiers (IPA \e.ʁi.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,851 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de héritier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for héritiers, with forms such as "heritiers", "hhéritiers", and "hréitiers". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hériter", "héritier", "héritées", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is héritiers, spelled H-É-R-I-T-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de héritier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how héritiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au lendemain de la première récurrence de la Peste, Andrieu du Temple et Jean de Brunville, qui appartenaient tous deux à des familles dominantes de Dieppe, firent « désédifier » une maison sans héritiers qui avait appartenu à un de leurs débiteurs, mais ils furent sanctionnés par le procureur de l’archevêque, car la maison était en fait « mise en main de…
Héritiers d’un passé multiséculaire et d’une expérience de métissages dont le swahili, à la fois langue et culture, est l’expression, les Comoriens ont adopté l’islam avant de connaître la colonisation française.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- heritiers
- hhéritiers
- hréitiers
- héirtiers
- hériiters
- hériteirs
- héritierrs
- héritierss
- héritiesr
- héritires
- hérittiers
- hérritiers
- hértiiers
- éhritiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of héritiers - 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 "héritiers", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).