militaire
\mi.li.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“militaire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,118
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la guerre ou les armées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-militaire · militaire · French
militaire · rank #1,118 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,118
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maladie
Nearest frequency peer: maladie (-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 « militaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- historique
historique
98,886 corpus weight
- industrie
industrie
98,885 corpus weight
- maladie
maladie
98,884 corpus weight
- militaire
militaire
98,883 corpus weight
- mondiale
mondiale
98,882 corpus weight
- médecin
médecin
98,881 corpus weight
What this shows « militaire » 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 | militaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mi.li.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « militaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around militaire (IPA \mi.li.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,118 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for militaire, with forms such as "imlitaire", "miiltaire", and "miliatire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "military", "militari", "militante", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is militaire, spelled M-I-L-I-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la guerre ou les armées.
- 2Destiné à l’usage des troupes.
- 3Autoritaire ; discipliné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how militaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dernière grande guerre qu’avait soutenue l’Angleterre, la guerre contre les Boers, était oubliée, et le public avait perdu l’habitude de la critique militaire experte.
Acceptons que le courage militaire demeure l’apanage d’une caste enfantine et bruyante, et ne se répande pas, comme l’a fait la Légion d’honneur, son insigne, parmi les professeurs, les contrôleurs, les peintres...
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlitaire
- miiltaire
- miliatire
- militaier
- militairre
- militarie
- militiare
- milittaire
- millitaire
- miltiaire
- mliitaire
- mmilitaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of militaire - 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
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).