primaires
\pʁi.mɛʁ\
The verdict
“primaires” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,389. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,389
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de primaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-primaires · primaires · French
primaires · rank #5,389 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,389
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pouce
Nearest frequency peer: pouce (-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 « primaires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poster
poster
94,616 corpus weight
- pouce
pouce
94,613 corpus weight
- primaires
primaires
94,612 corpus weight
- priori
priori
94,611 corpus weight
- provenance
provenance
94,610 corpus weight
- refuge
refuge
94,609 corpus weight
What this shows « primaires » 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 | primaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pʁi.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « primaires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around primaires (IPA \pʁi.mɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,389 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de primaire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for primaires, with forms such as "pirmaires", "pprimaires", and "priamires". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "primates", "primaire", "précaires", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is primaires, spelled P-R-I-M-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de primaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how primaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À partir de ces données de base, David J. Ott cherche à sectorialiser le processus de financement indirect par types de titres primaires et par type d’intermédiaires financiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pirmaires
- pprimaires
- priamires
- primaiers
- primairess
- primairres
- primairse
- primaries
- primiares
- primmaires
- prmiaires
- prrimaires
- rpimaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of primaires - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).