influer
\ɛ̃.fly.e\
The verdict
“influer” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,468
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-influer · influer · French
influer · rank #20,468 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,468
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH indexation
Nearest frequency peer: indexation (-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 « influer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- immigré
immigré
79,536 corpus weight
- indexation
indexation
79,534 corpus weight
- influer
influer
79,533 corpus weight
- ingrat
ingrat
79,532 corpus weight
- inhabituelle
inhabituelle
79,531 corpus weight
- Insomnie
Insomnie
79,530 corpus weight
What this shows « influer » 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 | influer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.fly.e\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « influer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around influer (IPA \ɛ̃.fly.e\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,468 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for influer, with forms such as "ifnluer", "inffluer", and "infleur". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "influx", "influe", "inclue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is influer, spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.
- 2Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.
- 3Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how influer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une étude portant sur plusieurs générations de rats a montré que le phosphamidon, administré à des doses toxiques pour la mère, influait sur la taille de la portée et sur la viabilité des jeunes rats.
La lune influe sur les marées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnluer
- inffluer
- infleur
- inflluer
- influerr
- influre
- infuler
- inlfuer
- innfluer
- nifluer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of influer - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).