misérables

\mi.ze.ʁabl\

/\mi.ze.ʁabl\/ adj

The verdict

“misérables” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,186. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,186
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de misérable.

Corpus desk

Index FR-miserables · misérables · French

misérables · rank #16,186 · 16 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,186
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH minimes

Nearest frequency peer: minimes (-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 « misérables »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « misérables » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

misérables vs minérales
80% similar
misérables vs mesurables
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for misérables
PropertyValue
Headwordmisérables
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\mi.ze.ʁabl\
Letters10
Frequency rank#16,186
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « misérables »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.misérablesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « minimes » (#16,185), « mouiller » (#16,187), « mouvance » (#16,188). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « misérables » est au #16,186. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around misérables (IPA \mi.ze.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,186 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de misérable.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for misérables, with forms such as "imsérables", "miserables", and "misréables". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "minérales", "mesurables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is misérables, spelled M-I-S-É-R-A-B-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de misérable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how misérables appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je ne dégrogne pas contre ces misérables terres qui je prévois ne nous donneront jamais rien, mais ce n’est pas notre faute.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imsérables
  • miserables
  • misréables
  • missérables
  • miséarbles
  • misérabbles
  • misérabels
  • misérabless
  • misérablles
  • misérablse
  • miséralbes
  • misérbales
  • misérrables
  • miésrables
  • mmisérables
  • msiérables

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of misérables - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

imsérables2miserables1misréables2missérables1miséarbles2misérabbles1misérabels2misérabless1
Edit distance from "misérables"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "misérables"?
"misérables" is spelled M-I-S-É-R-A-B-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.ze.ʁabl\.
What does "misérables" mean?
As an adjective, "misérables" means: Pluriel de misérable.
What words are commonly confused with "misérables"?
"misérables" is commonly confused with "minérales", "mesurables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "misérables"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "misérables" is \mi.ze.ʁabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "misérables" come from?
"misérables" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "misérables", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list