libraire
\li.bʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“libraire” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,720. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,720
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui ou celle qui fait le commerce des livres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-libraire · libraire · French
libraire · rank #14,720 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,720
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH latéraux
Nearest frequency peer: latéraux (-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 « libraire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ke
ke
85,284 corpus weight
- Kenny
Kenny
85,283 corpus weight
- latéraux
latéraux
85,282 corpus weight
- libraire
libraire
85,281 corpus weight
- loterie
loterie
85,280 corpus weight
- LREM
LREM
85,279 corpus weight
What this shows « libraire » 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 | libraire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « libraire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around libraire (IPA \li.bʁɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,720 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui ou celle qui fait le commerce des livres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for libraire, with forms such as "ilbraire", "lbiraire", and "libarire". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "library", "linéaire", "librairie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 libraire, spelled L-I-B-R-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui fait le commerce des livres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how libraire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vient ensuite la tomaison, qui se lie moins étroitement encore au frontispice que le nom de l'auteur, puis le nom et l'adresse du libraire.
Le libraire avait les bras chargés de quatre lourds in-octavo qu'il déposa sur une tablette. Tout souriant, le client s'approcha, posa une série de questions, nota sur un carnet la date de l'édition, le prix des volumes […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilbraire
- lbiraire
- libarire
- libbraire
- libraier
- librairre
- librarie
- libriare
- librraire
- lirbaire
- llibraire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of libraire - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "libraire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).