pompiers
\pɔ̃.pje\
The verdict
“pompiers” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,883. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,883
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pompier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pompiers · pompiers · French
pompiers · rank #4,883 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleinement
Nearest frequency peer: pleinement (-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 « pompiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orchestre
orchestre
95,121 corpus weight
- pattes
pattes
95,120 corpus weight
- pleinement
pleinement
95,119 corpus weight
- pompiers
pompiers
95,118 corpus weight
- productions
productions
95,117 corpus weight
- ray
ray
95,115 corpus weight
What this shows « pompiers » 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 | pompiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.pje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pompiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pompiers (IPA \pɔ̃.pje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,883 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pompier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pompiers, with forms such as "opmpiers", "pmopiers", and "pomipers". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "potiers", "pomper", "papiers", 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 pompiers, spelled P-O-M-P-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de pompier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opmpiers
- pmopiers
- pomipers
- pommpiers
- pompeirs
- pompierrs
- pompierss
- pompiesr
- pompires
- pomppiers
- popmiers
- ppompiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pompiers - 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 "pompiers", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).