photographier
\fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje\
The verdict
“photographier” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,444. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,444
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obtenir une image par les procédés de la photographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-photographier · photographier · French
photographier · rank #16,444 · 20 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,444
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perdra
Nearest frequency peer: perdra (-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 « photographier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parlerai
parlerai
83,560 corpus weight
- Paula
Paula
83,559 corpus weight
- perdra
perdra
83,558 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographier
83,557 corpus weight
- prescriptio…
prescriptions
83,556 corpus weight
- process
process
83,555 corpus weight
What this shows « photographier » 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 | photographier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #16,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « photographier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around photographier (IPA \fɔ.tɔ.ɡʁa.fje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,444 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for photographier, with forms such as "hpotographier", "phhotographier", and "phootgraphier". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "photographies", "photographe", "photographie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is photographier, spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Obtenir une image par les procédés de la photographie.
- 2Graver dans sa mémoire une vision rapide ou furtive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how photographier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un livre récent, M. Maxime Du Camp raconte qu'il photographiait, en Égypte, au cours d'un voyage entrepris en compagnie de G. Flaubert, en 1849. C'était peu après l'invention de la photographie.
Je me ferai faire un costume breton... celui des femmes de Pont-Labbé... c'est le plus joli... et nous nous ferons photographier tous les deux, la main dans la main, au pied de cet énorme dolmen que vous nous avez montré de loin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpotographier
- phhotographier
- phootgraphier
- photgoraphier
- photogarphier
- photoggraphier
- photograhpier
- photographeir
- photographhier
- photographierr
- photographire
- photograpiher
- photograpphier
- photogrpahier
- photogrraphier
- photorgaphier
- phottographier
- phtoographier
- pohtographier
- pphotographier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of photographier - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "photographier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).