misères

\mi.zɛʁ\

/\mi.zɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“misères” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,253
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-miseres · misères · French

misères · rank #28,253 · 11 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,253
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH militer

Nearest frequency peer: militer (-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 « misères »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « misères » 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).

misères vs mises
71% similar
misères vs musées
57% similar
misères vs modérés
43% similar

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

Key facts for misères
PropertyValue
Headwordmisères
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mi.zɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#28,253
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « misères »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).misèresse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « militer » (#28,252), « mitrailleuse » (#28,254), « midnight » (#28,251). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « misères » est au #28,253. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around misères (IPA \mi.zɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,253 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de misère.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for misères, with forms such as "imsères", "miseres", and "misrèes". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "mises", "musées", "modérés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is misères, spelled M-I-S-È-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de misère.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il fallait ramener le public au réel, à la vérité, aux choses dignes de commisération ; il était utile de le désefféminer, de lui montrer, en l’intéressant, la vie rude, nerveuse, aride, dans ses manifestations de chaque jour, dans ses luttes, dans ses drames du grand monde ; de lui faire palper les tristesses de la bourgeoisie et les misères des bas-fond…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imsères
  • miseres
  • misrèes
  • missères
  • misèers
  • misèress
  • misèrres
  • misèrse
  • mièsres
  • mmisères
  • msières

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

imsères2miseres1misrèes2missères1misèers2misèress1misèrres1misèrse2
Edit distance from "misères"

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 "misères"?
"misères" is spelled M-I-S-È-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \mi.zɛʁ\.
What does "misères" mean?
As a noun, "misères" means: Pluriel de misère.
What words are commonly confused with "misères"?
"misères" is commonly confused with "mises", "musées", "modérés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "misères"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "misères" is \mi.zɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "misères" come from?
"misères" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "misères", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list