horlogerie
\ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\
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
- Henderson
Henderson
78,355 corpus weight
- Henriette
Henriette
78,354 corpus weight
- Hippolyte
Hippolyte
78,353 corpus weight
- horlogerie
horlogerie
78,352 corpus weight
- humanistes
humanistes
78,351 corpus weight
- hyacinthe
hyacinthe
78,350 corpus weight
What this shows « horlogerie » 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 | horlogerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔʁ.lɔʒ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « horlogerie »
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
- 1Art de faire des horloges, des pendules, des montres.
- 2Ouvrages d’horlogerie.
- 3Magasin et/ou atelier où l'on vend et/ou répare et fabrique des horloges, des montres, des réveils.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horlogerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des ouvrages d’horlogerie.
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.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).