horlogerie

\ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\

/\ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“horlogerie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,649. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,649
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de faire des horloges, des pendules, des montres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-horlogerie · horlogerie · French

horlogerie · rank #21,649 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #21,649
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hippolyte

Nearest frequency peer: Hippolyte (-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 « horlogerie »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « horlogerie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

horlogerie vs horloger
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for horlogerie
PropertyValue
Headwordhorlogerie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\
Letters10
Frequency rank#21,649
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « horlogerie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).horlogeriese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Hippolyte » (#21,648), « humanistes » (#21,650), « Henriette » (#21,647). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « horlogerie » est au #21,649. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around horlogerie (IPA \ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,649 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for horlogerie, with forms such as "hhorlogerie", "holrogerie", and "horlgoerie". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "horloger", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is horlogerie, spelled H-O-R-L-O-G-E-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art de faire des horloges, des pendules, des montres.
  2. 2
    Ouvrages d’horlogerie.
  3. 3
    Magasin et/ou atelier où l'on vend et/ou répare et fabrique des horloges, des montres, des réveils.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how horlogerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des ouvrages d’horlogerie.
  2. Atelier d’horlogerie.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhorlogerie
  • holrogerie
  • horlgoerie
  • horllogerie
  • horloegrie
  • horlogeire
  • horlogerei
  • horlogerrie
  • horloggerie
  • horlogreie
  • horolgerie
  • horrlogerie
  • hrologerie
  • ohrlogerie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horlogerie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

hhorlogerie1holrogerie2horlgoerie2horllogerie1horloegrie2horlogeire2horlogerei2horlogerrie1
Edit distance from "horlogerie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "horlogerie"?
"horlogerie" is spelled H-O-R-L-O-G-E-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\.
What does "horlogerie" mean?
As a noun, "horlogerie" means: Art de faire des horloges, des pendules, des montres.
What words are commonly confused with "horlogerie"?
"horlogerie" is commonly confused with "horloger". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "horlogerie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "horlogerie" is \ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "horlogerie" come from?
"horlogerie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "horlogerie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list