moderniser
\mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.ze\
The verdict
“moderniser” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,534
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organiser d’une façon moderne ; adapter aux goûts ou aux besoins modernes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moderniser · moderniser · French
moderniser · rank #18,534 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,534
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mirror
Nearest frequency peer: mirror (-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 « moderniser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maximiser
maximiser
81,470 corpus weight
- ministériel…
ministérielle
81,469 corpus weight
- mirror
mirror
81,468 corpus weight
- moderniser
moderniser
81,467 corpus weight
- modestie
modestie
81,466 corpus weight
- mondialement
mondialement
81,465 corpus weight
What this shows « moderniser » 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 | moderniser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.ze\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « moderniser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around moderniser (IPA \mɔ.dɛʁ.ni.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,534 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organiser d’une façon moderne ; adapter aux goûts ou aux besoins modernes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for moderniser, with forms such as "mdoerniser", "mmoderniser", and "modderniser". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "modernité", "modernisme", "moderniste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is moderniser, spelled M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Organiser d’une façon moderne ; adapter aux goûts ou aux besoins modernes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moderniser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— De toutes les villes du département du Nord, Douai est, hélas ! celle qui se modernise le plus, où le sentiment innovateur a fait les plus rapides conquêtes, où l’amour du progrès social est le plus répandu.
— Tout s'est modernisé, et il y a de tout, sauf des gendarmes et des prisons, car le crime est encore inconnu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdoerniser
- mmoderniser
- modderniser
- modenriser
- moderinser
- moderniesr
- moderniserr
- modernisre
- modernisser
- modernniser
- modernsier
- moderrniser
- modreniser
- moedrniser
- omderniser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moderniser - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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