infirmière
\ɛ̃.fiʁ.mjɛʁ\
The verdict
“infirmière” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,307. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,307
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui soigne et sert les malades dans une infirmerie, dans un hôpital, dans une ambulance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infirmiere · infirmière · French
infirmière · rank #6,307 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,307
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indiquent
Nearest frequency peer: indiquent (-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 « infirmière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- géants
géants
93,698 corpus weight
- hello
hello
93,696 corpus weight
- indiquent
indiquent
93,695 corpus weight
- infirmière
infirmière
93,694 corpus weight
- intéressant…
intéressantes
93,692 corpus weight
- Jeff
Jeff
93,691 corpus weight
What this shows « infirmière » 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 | infirmière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infirmière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around infirmière (IPA \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,307 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celle qui soigne et sert les malades dans une infirmerie, dans un hôpital, dans une ambulance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for infirmière, with forms such as "ifnirmière", "inffirmière", and "infimrière". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "infirmité", "infirmiers", "infirmières", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is infirmière, spelled I-N-F-I-R-M-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui soigne et sert les malades dans une infirmerie, dans un hôpital, dans une ambulance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how infirmière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Office départemental d'hygiène sociale, […], dispose de dix médecins et de vingt-huit infirmières visiteuses, toujours sur la brèche.
Mais on dérape très vite, le médecin est aussi fou que ses patients, les infirmières sont déchaînées, l’atmosphère vire au pandémonium morbide et sexué.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnirmière
- inffirmière
- infimrière
- infirimère
- infirmiere
- infirmirèe
- infirmièer
- infirmièrre
- infirmmière
- infirmèire
- infirrmière
- infrimière
- inifrmière
- innfirmière
- nifirmière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infirmière - 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).