membres
\mɑ̃bʁ\
The verdict
“membres” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #480. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #480
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de membre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-membres · membres · French
membres · rank #480 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #480
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH jouer
Nearest frequency peer: jouer (-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 « membres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grands
grands
99,524 corpus weight
- important
important
99,523 corpus weight
- jouer
jouer
99,522 corpus weight
- membres
membres
99,521 corpus weight
- merde
merde
99,520 corpus weight
- parmi
parmi
99,519 corpus weight
What this shows « membres » 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 | membres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ̃bʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « membres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around membres (IPA \mɑ̃bʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #480 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de membre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for membres, with forms such as "emmbres", "mebmres", and "membbres". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "mêmes", "mères", "mètres", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is membres, spelled M-E-M-B-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de membre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how membres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lièvres de plaines ont les membres postérieurs très-longs, bien plus longs que les lièvres de montagne, or il est notoire que ces derniers sont moins vite forcés par les chiens que les lièvres des plaines.
En même temps, dans le cadre de l’Union Européenne, on a assisté à l’harmonisation des politiques sur le droit d’asile, ce que certains considèrent comme étant une perte de contrôle pour les États membres, mais ce que d’autres, peut-être avec plus de justesse, ont décrit comme étant un moyen de supranationaliser les problèmes et les décisions difficiles,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmbres
- mebmres
- membbres
- membress
- membrres
- membrse
- memmbres
- memrbes
- mmebres
- mmembres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of membres - 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 "membres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).