neutre
\nøtʁ\
The verdict
“neutre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,371
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne prend pas parti, qui ne doit pas prendre parti dans un conflit, dans un débat, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neutre · neutre · French
neutre · rank #5,371 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nerveux
Nearest frequency peer: nerveux (-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 « neutre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mineur
mineur
94,633 corpus weight
- musées
musées
94,632 corpus weight
- nerveux
nerveux
94,631 corpus weight
- neutre
neutre
94,630 corpus weight
- oeuvres
oeuvres
94,629 corpus weight
- opposer
opposer
94,628 corpus weight
What this shows « neutre » 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 | neutre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nøtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « neutre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around neutre (IPA \nøtʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,371 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for neutre, with forms such as "enutre", "neture", and "neurte". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "notre", "neuve", "nuire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is neutre, spelled N-E-U-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne prend pas parti, qui ne doit pas prendre parti dans un conflit, dans un débat, etc.
- 2Qui ne prend pas parti, qui ne doit pas prendre parti dans un conflit, dans un débat, etc.
- 3Qui ne prend pas parti, qui ne doit pas prendre parti dans un conflit, dans un débat, etc.
- 4Qui ne prend pas parti, qui ne doit pas prendre parti dans un conflit, dans un débat, etc.
- 5Se dit d’un mot qui s’oppose à certains genres dans certaines langues.
- 6Se dit d’un mot qui s’oppose à certains genres dans certaines langues.
- 7Se dit d’un mot qui s’oppose à certains genres dans certaines langues.
- 8Intransitif en parlant des verbes.
- 9Impersonnel en parlant des pronoms.
- 10Ni acide ni alcalin en parlant du pH.
- 11Asexué.
- 12Inopérant, qui laisse les autres éléments inchangés lorsqu'il est combiné avec eux par une loi de composition interne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how neutre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette nation demeura, resta neutre.
Les États neutres.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enutre
- neture
- neurte
- neuter
- neutrre
- neuttre
- nneutre
- nuetre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of neutre - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).