meilleurs
\mɛ.jœʁ\
The verdict
“meilleurs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #968
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de meilleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meilleurs · meilleurs · French
meilleurs · rank #968 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #968
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lumière
Nearest frequency peer: lumière (-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 « meilleurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exactement
exactement
99,037 corpus weight
- grave
grave
99,036 corpus weight
- huit
huit
99,035 corpus weight
- lumière
lumière
99,034 corpus weight
- meilleurs
meilleurs
99,033 corpus weight
- médias
médias
99,032 corpus weight
What this shows « meilleurs » 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 | meilleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɛ.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « meilleurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around meilleurs (IPA \mɛ.jœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #968 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de meilleur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for meilleurs, with forms such as "emilleurs", "meilelurs", and "meileurs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "meilleur", "meilleure", "meilleures", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is meilleurs, spelled M-E-I-L-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de meilleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meilleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tatillon, maniaque, obnubilé par les détails et sujet à transformer ses meilleurs amis en ennemis à force d’inflexibilité, voici Alfred Marshall, qui connut malgré tout la consécration professionnelle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emilleurs
- meilelurs
- meileurs
- meillerus
- meilleurrs
- meilleurss
- meilleusr
- meilluers
- melileurs
- mielleurs
- mmeilleurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meilleurs - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "meilleurs", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).