libraires
\li.bʁɛʁ\
The verdict
“libraires” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,170
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de libraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-libraires · libraires · French
libraires · rank #16,170 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,170
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH ledit
Nearest frequency peer: ledit (-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 « libraires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jouaient
jouaient
83,835 corpus weight
- ledit
ledit
83,832 corpus weight
- libraires
libraires
83,831 corpus weight
- locomotive
locomotive
83,829 corpus weight
- Lydia
Lydia
83,828 corpus weight
- Maggie
Maggie
83,827 corpus weight
What this shows « libraires » 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 | libraires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bʁɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « libraires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around libraires (IPA \li.bʁɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,170 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de libraire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for libraires, with forms such as "ilbraires", "lbiraires", and "libarires". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "librairie", "linéaires", "librairies", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is libraires, spelled L-I-B-R-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de libraire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how libraires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait donc fini par se désencanailler, et lorsqu’arriva la Révolution, après trente ans d’une vie un peu décousue, mais qui, en trente autres années d’un travail acharné, il avait amassé assez d’argent pour rappeler fièrement aux libraires ce qu’ils lui devaient, et assez de considération pour ne se croire pas indigne d’entrer à l’Institut lorsque la C…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilbraires
- lbiraires
- libarires
- libbraires
- libraiers
- librairess
- librairres
- librairse
- libraries
- libriares
- librraires
- lirbaires
- llibraires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of libraires - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).