influer

\ɛ̃.fly.e\

/\ɛ̃.fly.e\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « influer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

influer vs influx
71% similar
influer vs influe
86% similar
influer vs inclue
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for influer
PropertyValue
Headwordinfluer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ̃.fly.e\
Letters7
Frequency rank#20,468
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « influer »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).influerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « indexation » (#20,467), « ingrat » (#20,469), « inhabituelle » (#20,470). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « influer » est au #20,468. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.
  2. 2
    Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.
  3. 3
    Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how influer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

ifnluer2inffluer1infleur2inflluer1influerr1influre2infuler2inlfuer2
Edit distance from "influer"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "influer"?
"influer" is spelled I-N-F-L-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.fly.e\.
What does "influer" mean?
As a verb, "influer" means: Faire impression sur une chose, exercer sur elle une action qui tend à la modifier.
What words are commonly confused with "influer"?
"influer" is commonly confused with "influx", "influe", "inclue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "influer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "influer" is \ɛ̃.fly.e\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "influer" come from?
"influer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "influer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list