reformer
\ʁə.fɔʁ.me\
The verdict
“reformer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,151
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Former de nouveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reformer · reformer · French
reformer · rank #32,151 · 12 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,151
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH refermé
Nearest frequency peer: refermé (-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 « reformer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rectifié
rectifié
67,853 corpus weight
- redoutent
redoutent
67,852 corpus weight
- refermé
refermé
67,851 corpus weight
- reformer
reformer
67,850 corpus weight
- refouler
refouler
67,849 corpus weight
- refusons
refusons
67,848 corpus weight
What this shows « reformer » 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 | reformer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.fɔʁ.me\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reformer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around reformer (IPA \ʁə.fɔʁ.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,151 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for reformer, with forms such as "erformer", "refformer", and "refomrer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "reporter", "renommer", "refouler", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 reformer, spelled R-E-F-O-R-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Former de nouveau.
- 2Se rallier et reprendre son ordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reformer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vétérans chevronnés de la guerre des boutons, grands maraudeurs de pommes et abatteurs de noix, tous, garnements de dix à douze ans, nous avions ce printemps-là reformé notre association de bandits grimpeurs, pillards aériens et détrousseurs de nids.
Chez certaines orchidées, on a pu observer un phénomène particulier de nécrotrophie qui lyse les pelotons, ce qui permet une décharge importante d'éléments nutritifs du champignon à la racine de l'orchidée, les pelotons se reformant au fur et à mesure de la croissance de la racine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erformer
- refformer
- refomrer
- reforemr
- reformerr
- reformmer
- reformre
- reforrmer
- refromer
- reofrmer
- rfeormer
- rreformer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reformer - 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
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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).