reliure
\ʁə.ljyʁ\
The verdict
“reliure” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,848
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Métier du relieur, art de relier les livres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reliure · reliure · French
reliure · rank #26,848 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,848
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relayée
Nearest frequency peer: relayée (-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 « reliure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recyclé
recyclé
73,157 corpus weight
- rei
rei
73,155 corpus weight
- relayée
relayée
73,154 corpus weight
- reliure
reliure
73,153 corpus weight
- renards
renards
73,152 corpus weight
- rencontrait
rencontrait
73,151 corpus weight
What this shows « reliure » 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 | reliure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ljyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reliure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around reliure (IPA \ʁə.ljyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,848 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for reliure, with forms such as "erliure", "reilure", and "relirue". 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, "retiré", "revivre", "relié", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is reliure, spelled R-E-L-I-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Métier du relieur, art de relier les livres.
- 2Ouvrage d’un relieur ; manière dont un livre est relié.
- 3Couverture d’un livre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reliure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apprendre la reliure.
Non; qu’il s’agisse, d’un livre ou d’un animal, il faut aller plus loin que la reliure, il faut pénétrer sous l’enveloppe extérieure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erliure
- reilure
- relirue
- reliuer
- reliurre
- relliure
- reluire
- rleiure
- rreliure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reliure - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).