photographie
\fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“photographie” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,516
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Processus de fabrication d’images sur une surface sensible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-photographie · photographie · French
photographie · rank #4,516 · 18 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,516
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ouvertes
Nearest frequency peer: ouvertes (-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 « photographie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- noble
noble
95,488 corpus weight
- optique
optique
95,487 corpus weight
- ouvertes
ouvertes
95,486 corpus weight
- photographie
photographie
95,485 corpus weight
- plafond
plafond
95,484 corpus weight
- pomme
pomme
95,483 corpus weight
What this shows « photographie » 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 | photographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #4,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « photographie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around photographie (IPA \fɔ.to.ɡʁa.fi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,516 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for photographie, with forms such as "hpotographie", "phhotographie", and "phootgraphie". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "photography", "photographies", "photographier", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 photographie, spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Processus de fabrication d’images sur une surface sensible.
- 2Image sur un support photosensible.
- 3Portrait réalisé par photographie.
- 4Art des photographes.
- 5Résumé ou synthèse d’une situation à un moment donné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how photographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’est plus permis aujourd’hui à un photographe quelque peu averti, d’ignorer la sensitométrie. Les méthodes de mesures créées par Hürter et Driffield, perfectionnées par un grand nombre de savants, ont acquis une importance considérable en photographie.
Toutefois, c’est finalement le recours à la photographie astronomique qui a rendu possible, plusieurs années après le décès de Lowell, le succès de cette entreprise.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpotographie
- phhotographie
- phootgraphie
- photgoraphie
- photogarphie
- photoggraphie
- photograhpie
- photographei
- photographhie
- photograpihe
- photograpphie
- photogrpahie
- photogrraphie
- photorgaphie
- phottographie
- phtoographie
- pohtographie
- pphotographie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of photographie - 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 "photographie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).