industrie

\ɛ̃.dys.tʁi\

/\ɛ̃.dys.tʁi\/ noun

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The verdict

“industrie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,116
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dextérité ou adresse à faire quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-industrie · industrie · French

industrie · rank #1,116 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,116
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH historique

Nearest frequency peer: historique (-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 « industrie »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « industrie » 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).

industrie vs industry
78% similar
industrie vs industriel
90% similar
industrie vs industries
90% similar

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

Key facts for industrie
PropertyValue
Headwordindustrie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.dys.tʁi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,116
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « industrie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).industriese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « historique » (#1,115), « maladie » (#1,117), « généralement » (#1,114). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « industrie » est au #1,116. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around industrie (IPA \ɛ̃.dys.tʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,116 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for industrie, with forms such as "idnustrie", "inddustrie", and "indsutrie". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "industry", "industriel", "industries", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is industrie, spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dextérité ou adresse à faire quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Usage habile de moyens illégaux, illégitimes ou immoraux.
  3. 3
    Profession mécanique ou mercantile, art, métier que l’on exerce et qui comporte une certaine ingéniosité.
  4. 4
    Les arts mécaniques et les manufactures en général, ordinairement par opposition à l’agriculture, au commerce.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sur ces entrefaites, Pépin mourut, et Karl revint en France, emmenant avec lui Galiana qui fut couronnée reine et reçue avec de grandes réjouissances. C’est ainsi qu’une More eut l’industrie de devenir reine chrétienne, « et le souvenir de cette histoire, encore qu’il soit attaché à un vieil édifice, mérite d’être conservé dans Tolède », ajoute le chroniq…
  2. […] je suis doué d’une bonne dose de philosophie, chose indispensable lorsqu’on voyage, en Amérique surtout, où la plupart du temps on est livré à sa propre industrie sans avoir la ressource de pouvoir compter sur un secours étranger.

This word in other languages

industry(English)industria(Español)Industrie(Deutsch)indústria(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • idnustrie
  • inddustrie
  • indsutrie
  • indusrtie
  • indusstrie
  • industire
  • industrei
  • industrrie
  • industtrie
  • indutsrie
  • inndustrie
  • inudstrie
  • nidustrie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of industrie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

idnustrie2inddustrie1indsutrie2indusrtie2indusstrie1industire2industrei2industrrie1
Edit distance from "industrie"

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 "industrie"?
"industrie" is spelled I-N-D-U-S-T-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.dys.tʁi\.
What does "industrie" mean?
As a noun, "industrie" means: Dextérité ou adresse à faire quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "industrie"?
"industrie" is commonly confused with "industry", "industriel", "industries". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "industrie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "industrie" is \ɛ̃.dys.tʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "industrie" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

militaire#1,118expliquer#1,112permettre#1,121continuer#1,089

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

professeur13 variantsétranger13 variantsévolution13 variantsMontréal13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list