meilleure
\mɛ.jœʁ\
The verdict
“meilleure” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #630. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #630
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est la mieux placée, la première ; qui est au maximum, au top.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meilleure · meilleure · French
meilleure · rank #630 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #630
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH langue
Nearest frequency peer: langue (-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 « meilleure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ii
ii
99,374 corpus weight
- justice
justice
99,373 corpus weight
- langue
langue
99,372 corpus weight
- meilleure
meilleure
99,371 corpus weight
- met
met
99,370 corpus weight
- occasion
occasion
99,369 corpus weight
What this shows « meilleure » 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 | meilleure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « meilleure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around meilleure (IPA \mɛ.jœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #630 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celle qui est la mieux placée, la première ; qui est au maximum, au top.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for meilleure, with forms such as "emilleure", "meilelure", and "meileure". 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, "meilleurs", "meilleures", "meilleur", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is meilleure, spelled M-E-I-L-L-E-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est la mieux placée, la première ; qui est au maximum, au top.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meilleure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Version ultraséduisante chez Fuller (Le Port de la drogue) qui utilisa sa nervosité au service d’une sorte de pédagogie amoureuse aussi violente qu’efficace, lorsqu’un homme et une femme construisent une histoire d’amour à coups de gifles (reçues par Jean Peters, la meilleure des teigneuses hollywoodiennes).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emilleure
- meilelure
- meileure
- meillerue
- meilleuer
- meilleurre
- meilluere
- melileure
- mielleure
- mmeilleure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meilleure - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).