microbe
\mi.kʁɔb\
The verdict
“microbe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,867
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme vivant qui ne peut être vu qu’en utilisant un microscope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-microbe · microbe · French
microbe · rank #40,867 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,867
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mich
Nearest frequency peer: mich (-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 « microbe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maîtrisant
maîtrisant
59,137 corpus weight
- mich
mich
59,135 corpus weight
- microbe
microbe
59,134 corpus weight
- minis
minis
59,133 corpus weight
- miocène
miocène
59,132 corpus weight
- misant
misant
59,131 corpus weight
What this shows « microbe » 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 | microbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mi.kʁɔb\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « microbe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around microbe (IPA \mi.kʁɔb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,867 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for microbe, with forms such as "imcrobe", "mcirobe", and "miccrobe". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "micros", "microns", "microbes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is microbe, spelled M-I-C-R-O-B-E.
Definition
- 1Organisme vivant qui ne peut être vu qu’en utilisant un microscope.
- 2Avorton, nain, personne de petite taille.
- 3Tout agent pathogène, vecteur de transmission invisible.
- 4Personne méprisable, malfaisante, qui répand le mal.
- 5Enfant criminel, souvent issu de la rue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how microbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et l’air, mon Claudin, l’air reniflable, risquais-je avec rusticité? — Tu renifles ? Et les microbes ! Prends garde !
On sait que le microbe de la peste est un cocco-bacille appartenant au genre Pasteurella, dont les différentes espèces produisent les septicémies hémorragiques des animaux.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imcrobe
- mcirobe
- miccrobe
- micorbe
- micrboe
- microbbe
- microeb
- micrrobe
- mircobe
- mmicrobe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of microbe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).