Phèdre
\fɛdʁ\
The verdict
“Phèdre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,478. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,478
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé, épouse de Thésée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phedre · Phèdre · French
Phèdre · rank #37,478 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,478
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perçant
Nearest frequency peer: perçant (-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 « Phèdre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- perdais
perdais
62,526 corpus weight
- Persée
Persée
62,525 corpus weight
- perçant
perçant
62,524 corpus weight
- Phèdre
Phèdre
62,523 corpus weight
- Pigalle
Pigalle
62,521 corpus weight
- pir
pir
62,520 corpus weight
What this shows « Phèdre » 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 | Phèdre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \fɛdʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Phèdre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Phèdre (IPA \fɛdʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,478 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé, épouse de Thésée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Phèdre, with forms such as "hpèdre", "phdère", and "phedre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Pierre", "prêtre", "poudre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Phèdre, spelled P-H-È-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé, épouse de Thésée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpèdre
- phdère
- phedre
- phhèdre
- phèddre
- phèder
- phèdrre
- phèrde
- pphèdre
- pèhdre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Phèdre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Phèdre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).