injure
\ɛ̃.ʒyʁ\
The verdict
“injure” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,320
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Insulte, outrage, ou de fait, ou de parole, ou par écrit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-injure · injure · French
injure · rank #19,320 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,320
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH injecter
Nearest frequency peer: injecter (-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 « injure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- imposable
imposable
80,684 corpus weight
- imprévu
imprévu
80,683 corpus weight
- injecter
injecter
80,682 corpus weight
- injure
injure
80,681 corpus weight
- institutrice
institutrice
80,680 corpus weight
- intérimaire
intérimaire
80,679 corpus weight
What this shows « injure » 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 | injure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ʒyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « injure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around injure (IPA \ɛ̃.ʒyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,320 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for injure, with forms such as "ijnure", "injjure", and "injrue". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "insère", "inouïe", "injuste", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is injure, spelled I-N-J-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Insulte, outrage, ou de fait, ou de parole, ou par écrit.
- 2Parole offensante, outrageante.
- 3Dégradation, la ruine, la perte de certaines choses par l’effet des intempéries, de la durée, de l’âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how injure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louer les princes des vertus qu’ils n’ont pas, c’est leur dire impunément des injures.
La veille du jour où il arrêta Eugène sur le cours Sauvaire, il avait publié, dans l’Indépendant, un article terrible sur les menées du clergé, en réponse à un entrefilet de Vuillet, qui accusait les républicains de vouloir démolir les églises. Vuillet était la bête noire d’Aristide. Il ne se passait pas de semaine sans que les deux journalistes échangeas…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ijnure
- injjure
- injrue
- injuer
- injurre
- innjure
- inujre
- nijure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of injure - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).