infirmiers
\ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje\
The verdict
“infirmiers” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,618
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de infirmier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-infirmiers · infirmiers · French
infirmiers · rank #13,618 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,618
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indéniable
Nearest frequency peer: indéniable (-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 « infirmiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- incompétence
incompétence
86,385 corpus weight
- indéniable
indéniable
86,384 corpus weight
- infirmiers
infirmiers
86,383 corpus weight
- institute
institute
86,382 corpus weight
- institution…
institutionnel
86,381 corpus weight
- inédites
inédites
86,380 corpus weight
What this shows « infirmiers » 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 | infirmiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « infirmiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around infirmiers (IPA \ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,618 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de infirmier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for infirmiers, with forms such as "ifnirmiers", "inffirmiers", and "infimriers". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "infirmer", "infirmier", "infirmière", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is infirmiers, spelled I-N-F-I-R-M-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de infirmier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how infirmiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les jeunes qui s’orientent en Ifsi sont généralement issus de milieux peu favorisés, constate Violaine Massot, présidente de l’Esiop, une association qui vient en aide aux étudiants en soins infirmiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnirmiers
- inffirmiers
- infimriers
- infirimers
- infirmeirs
- infirmierrs
- infirmierss
- infirmiesr
- infirmires
- infirmmiers
- infirrmiers
- infrimiers
- inifrmiers
- innfirmiers
- nifirmiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infirmiers - 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).