infirmier
\ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje\
The verdict
“infirmier” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,406
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui soigne et sert les malades dans une infirmerie, dans un hôpital, dans une ambulance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infirmier · infirmier · French
infirmier · rank #13,406 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,406
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH insigne
Nearest frequency peer: insigne (+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 « infirmier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Holmes
Holmes
86,599 corpus weight
- humoristique
humoristique
86,598 corpus weight
- Ibrahim
Ibrahim
86,597 corpus weight
- infirmier
infirmier
86,595 corpus weight
- insigne
insigne
86,594 corpus weight
- interlocute…
interlocuteurs
86,593 corpus weight
What this shows « infirmier » 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 | infirmier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infirmier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around infirmier (IPA \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,406 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui soigne et sert les malades dans une infirmerie, dans un hôpital, dans une ambulance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for infirmier, with forms such as "ifnirmier", "inffirmier", and "infimrier". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "informer", "infirmité", "infirmière", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is infirmier, spelled I-N-F-I-R-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui soigne et sert les malades dans une infirmerie, dans un hôpital, dans une ambulance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how infirmier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’infirmier n’appuyait que très lentement sur la seringue et le liquide ne devait s’écouler que goutte à goutte dans mon sang.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnirmier
- inffirmier
- infimrier
- infirimer
- infirmeir
- infirmierr
- infirmire
- infirmmier
- infirrmier
- infrimier
- inifrmier
- innfirmier
- nifirmier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infirmier - 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.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).