librairie
\li.bʁɛ.ʁi\
The verdict
“librairie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,260
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commerce où l’on vend des livres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-librairie · librairie · French
librairie · rank #5,260 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,260
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Jim
Nearest frequency peer: Jim (-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 « librairie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- insulte
insulte
94,745 corpus weight
- Jim
Jim
94,742 corpus weight
- librairie
librairie
94,741 corpus weight
- life
life
94,740 corpus weight
- loyer
loyer
94,739 corpus weight
- mobilité
mobilité
94,738 corpus weight
What this shows « librairie » 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 | librairie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.bʁɛ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « librairie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around librairie (IPA \li.bʁɛ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,260 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for librairie, with forms such as "ilbrairie", "lbirairie", and "libaririe". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "librairies", "libraire", "libraires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is librairie, spelled L-I-B-R-A-I-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Commerce où l’on vend des livres.
- 2Profession de libraire.
- 3Bibliothèque. Cette acception s’est conservée longtemps dans les actes publics.
- 4Bibliothèque de sous-programmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how librairie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Allons à la librairie pour acheter les livres ! »
Il a ouvert une librairie d’occasion.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilbrairie
- lbirairie
- libaririe
- libbrairie
- libraiire
- librairei
- librairrie
- librariie
- libriarie
- librrairie
- lirbairie
- llibrairie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of librairie - 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 "librairie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).