phonèmes
\fɔ.nɛm\
The verdict
“phonèmes” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,953
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de phonème.
Corpus desk
Index FR-phonemes · phonèmes · French
phonèmes · rank #46,953 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH philharmonie
Nearest frequency peer: philharmonie (-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 « phonèmes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Peralta
Peralta
53,051 corpus weight
- perfs
perfs
53,050 corpus weight
- philharmonie
philharmonie
53,049 corpus weight
- phonèmes
phonèmes
53,048 corpus weight
- piercings
piercings
53,047 corpus weight
- pistaches
pistaches
53,046 corpus weight
What this shows « phonèmes » 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 | phonèmes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.nɛm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #46,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « phonèmes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around phonèmes (IPA \fɔ.nɛm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,953 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de phonème.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for phonèmes, with forms such as "hponèmes", "phhonèmes", and "phnoèmes". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "poèmes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is phonèmes, spelled P-H-O-N-È-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de phonème.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how phonèmes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains phonèmes sont particulièrement instables: des voyelles se diphtonguent et se dédiphtonguent alternativement, les diphtongues changent de sens (ascendant ou descendant) très facilement, et ceci d’autant plus lorsqu’elles sont en syllabe finale et que la langue hésite entre la tendance à l’accent sur la dernière et celle à l’accent sur la pénultièm…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hponèmes
- phhonèmes
- phnoèmes
- phonemes
- phonmèes
- phonnèmes
- phonèems
- phonèmess
- phonèmmes
- phonèmse
- phoènmes
- pohnèmes
- pphonèmes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of phonèmes - 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 "phonèmes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).