ITER
\i.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“ITER” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,832) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,832
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Projet scientifique international de recherche sur un réacteur à fusion nucléaire de type tokamak.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iter · ITER · French
ITER · rank #46,832 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,832
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH Islamabad
Nearest frequency peer: Islamabad (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ITER »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- invétéré
invétéré
53,172 corpus weight
- Isaiah
Isaiah
53,171 corpus weight
- Islamabad
Islamabad
53,170 corpus weight
- ITER
ITER
53,169 corpus weight
- iu
iu
53,168 corpus weight
- jaeger
jaeger
53,167 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ITER » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ITER |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \i.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ITER »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ITER is neighbouring look-alikes ("its", "ive", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \i.tɛʁ\. Frequency #46,832 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Projet scientifique international de recherche sur un réacteur à fusion nucléaire de type tokamak.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ITER, with forms such as "ietr", "iterr", and "itre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "its", "ive", "ixe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ITER, spelled I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Projet scientifique international de recherche sur un réacteur à fusion nucléaire de type tokamak.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ietr
- iterr
- itre
- itter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ITER - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "ITER"?
What does "ITER" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "ITER"?
How do you pronounce "ITER"?
What language does "ITER" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ITER", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).