questionnaire
\kɛs.tjɔ.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“questionnaire” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,928. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,928
- frequency rank, French
- 352
- “Q” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourreau qui donnait la question aux accusés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-questionnaire · questionnaire · French
questionnaire · rank #10,928 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,928
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 352
- PHOTO-FINISH prétendant
Nearest frequency peer: prétendant (-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 « questionnaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Poitou
Poitou
89,077 corpus weight
- prétendant
prétendant
89,074 corpus weight
- questionnai…
questionnaire
89,073 corpus weight
- recevez
recevez
89,072 corpus weight
- recruté
recruté
89,071 corpus weight
- rein
rein
89,070 corpus weight
What this shows « questionnaire » 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 | questionnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛs.tjɔ.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #10,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « questionnaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around questionnaire (IPA \kɛs.tjɔ.nɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,928 among 352 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for questionnaire, with forms such as "qeustionnaire", "qquestionnaire", and "quesitonnaire". 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, "questionnaires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is questionnaire, spelled Q-U-E-S-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Bourreau qui donnait la question aux accusés.
- 2Série de questions méthodiquement posées en vue d’une enquête ; formulaire où elles sont inscrites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how questionnaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aucun conspirateur géhenné par le questionnaire à Venise ne fut plus mal dans des brodequins de la torture que Birotteau ne l'était dans ses vêtements.
[Sainte Blandine] fatigua les brigades de bourreaux […], les questionnaires vaincus avouèrent n'avoir plus de supplices pour elle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qeustionnaire
- qquestionnaire
- quesitonnaire
- quesstionnaire
- questinonaire
- questionaire
- questionanire
- questionnaier
- questionnairre
- questionnarie
- questionniare
- questoinnaire
- questtionnaire
- quetsionnaire
- qusetionnaire
- uqestionnaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of questionnaire - 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 "questionnaire", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).