number
\ˈnʌm.bɚ\
The verdict
“number” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,010. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,010
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-number · number · French
number · rank #18,010 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,010
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nullité
Nearest frequency peer: nullité (-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 « number »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- navigateurs
navigateurs
81,994 corpus weight
- nounou
nounou
81,993 corpus weight
- nullité
nullité
81,992 corpus weight
- number
number
81,991 corpus weight
- onzième
onzième
81,989 corpus weight
- paillettes
paillettes
81,988 corpus weight
What this shows « number » 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 | number |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈnʌm.bɚ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « number »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around number (IPA \ˈnʌm.bɚ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,010 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for number, with forms such as "nmuber", "nnumber", and "nubmer". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "numbers", "nommer", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 number, spelled N-U-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nombre.
- 2Nombre, quantité.
- 3Multitude, grande quantité.
- 4Numéro, qui indique la position de quelque chose dans une liste.
- 5Numéro, identifiant, suite de lettres et de chiffres servant à identifier une personne ou un objet.
- 6Nombre.
- 7Mètres, vers, strophes.
- 8Numéro (spectacle).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how number appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress
Luckily enough, there are a number of predefined character classes that can be re-used and will be already known by other developers, making the expressions using them more readable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nmuber
- nnumber
- nubmer
- numbber
- numberr
- numbre
- numebr
- nummber
- unmber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of number - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).