Molière
\mɔ.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“Molière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,891
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de plume de l’écrivain et dramaturge français Jean-Baptiste Poquelin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-moliere · Molière · French
Molière · rank #8,891 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,891
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH missile
Nearest frequency peer: missile (-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 « Molière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- milles
milles
91,113 corpus weight
- miracles
miracles
91,112 corpus weight
- missile
missile
91,111 corpus weight
- Molière
Molière
91,110 corpus weight
- mousse
mousse
91,109 corpus weight
- nationalist…
nationalistes
91,108 corpus weight
What this shows « Molière » 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 | Molière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Molière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Molière (IPA \mɔ.ljɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,891 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Molière, with forms such as "mloière", "mmolière", and "moilère". 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, "moire", "modéré", "manière", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Molière, spelled M-O-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de plume de l’écrivain et dramaturge français Jean-Baptiste Poquelin.
- 2Dramaturge de génie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Molière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fierté des maîtresses de maison formées aux traditions familiales, la blanquette est, révérence gardée, à la cuisine française ce que Molière est au théâtre. Un symbole, un modèle éternel qui fait école, une sorte de mémoire collective.
Cependant que déjà, maître, ta main hardie Aux Molières futurs taille la comédie, Et, des voiles bénins dégageant ton tableau, Prépare des rougeurs au pudique Boileau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mloière
- mmolière
- moilère
- moliere
- molirèe
- molièer
- molièrre
- mollière
- molèire
- omlière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Molière - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Molière", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).