inférieure
\ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\
The verdict
“inférieure” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,338
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est située en-dessous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inferieure · inférieure · French
inférieure · rank #4,338 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,338
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH gratuite
Nearest frequency peer: gratuite (-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 « inférieure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fraude
fraude
95,666 corpus weight
- fumer
fumer
95,665 corpus weight
- gratuite
gratuite
95,664 corpus weight
- inférieure
inférieure
95,663 corpus weight
- inspecteur
inspecteur
95,662 corpus weight
- intentions
intentions
95,661 corpus weight
What this shows « inférieure » 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 | inférieure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « inférieure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around inférieure (IPA \ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,338 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for inférieure, with forms such as "ifnérieure", "inferieure", and "infférieure". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "intérieur", "intérieure", "inférieurs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is inférieure, spelled I-N-F-É-R-I-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est située en-dessous.
- 2Celle qui est au-dessous d’un autre en rang, en dignité, et ordinairement avec subordination et dépendance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inférieure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trou - sa bouche -, à l’intérieur duquel il manque une prémolaire inférieure, probablement une dent de lait.
Jusqu’à ce qu’elles retrouvent ces deux moteurs, qu’elles ont perdus lorsqu’elles ont péché contre la vie, acceptant d’être les inférieures des hommes comme ceux-ci le leur demandaient, les femmes ne pourront jamais faire fructifier ces étincelles d’individualité et de vitalité qui vacillent encore en elles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnérieure
- inferieure
- infférieure
- infréieure
- inféireure
- inféreiure
- inférierue
- inférieuer
- inférieurre
- infériuere
- inférrieure
- innférieure
- inéfrieure
- niférieure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inférieure - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).