infirmerie
\ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁi\
The verdict
“infirmerie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,705. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,705
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu destiné, en général, à recevoir des malades peu gravement atteints dans les communautés et maisons religieuses, dans les casernes, dans les collèges, dans tout établissement d’instruction comp...
Corpus desk
Index FR-infirmerie · infirmerie · French
infirmerie · rank #14,705 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,705
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indéterminée
Nearest frequency peer: indéterminée (-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 « infirmerie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- incluent
incluent
85,299 corpus weight
- indéterminée
indéterminée
85,297 corpus weight
- infirmerie
infirmerie
85,296 corpus weight
- injonction
injonction
85,295 corpus weight
- inquiets
inquiets
85,294 corpus weight
- intellectue…
intellectuelles
85,293 corpus weight
What this shows « infirmerie » 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 | infirmerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infirmerie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around infirmerie (IPA \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,705 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lieu destiné, en général, à recevoir des malades peu gravement atteints dans les communautés et maisons religieuses, dans les casernes, dans les collèges, dans tout établissement d’instruction comp...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for infirmerie, with forms such as "ifnirmerie", "inffirmerie", and "infimrerie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "infirmière", "infirmer", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is infirmerie, spelled I-N-F-I-R-M-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu destiné, en général, à recevoir des malades peu gravement atteints dans les communautés et maisons religieuses, dans les casernes, dans les collèges, dans tout établissement d’instruction comportant un internat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infirmerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai parlé tout à l’heure de l’insuffisance du personnel à l’infirmerie de Chelsa. Que dire à ce point de vue de l’infirmerie de Gray’s Inn? Pour ces 500 malades, il n’y a qu’un médecin.
L'assistance médicale était organisée ; les infirmeries indigènes, créées dans chacun de nos postes, voyaient affluer, chaque jour, des centaines de consultants dont certains venaient se faire panser les blessures reçues en nous combattant ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnirmerie
- inffirmerie
- infimrerie
- infiremrie
- infirmeire
- infirmerei
- infirmerrie
- infirmmerie
- infirmreie
- infirrmerie
- infrimerie
- inifrmerie
- innfirmerie
- nifirmerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infirmerie - 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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