rembourser
\ʁɑ̃.buʁ.se\
The verdict
“rembourser” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,699
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre à quelqu’un le montant de ses débours ; payer à quelqu’un le prix de ce qu’il avait acheté et qu’il n’a pas reçu ou dont il se refuse à prendre livraison ; compenser des dépenses qu’on a fai...
Corpus desk
Index FR-rembourser · rembourser · French
rembourser · rank #5,699 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,699
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH regards
Nearest frequency peer: regards (-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 « rembourser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pâte
pâte
94,305 corpus weight
- rapprocher
rapprocher
94,304 corpus weight
- regards
regards
94,303 corpus weight
- rembourser
rembourser
94,302 corpus weight
- renouvellem…
renouvellement
94,301 corpus weight
- repartir
repartir
94,300 corpus weight
What this shows « rembourser » 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 | rembourser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.buʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rembourser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around rembourser (IPA \ʁɑ̃.buʁ.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,699 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for rembourser, with forms such as "ermbourser", "rebmourser", and "rembbourser". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "remboursés", "remboursera", "remboursé", and more, 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, 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 rembourser, spelled R-E-M-B-O-U-R-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre à quelqu’un le montant de ses débours ; payer à quelqu’un le prix de ce qu’il avait acheté et qu’il n’a pas reçu ou dont il se refuse à prendre livraison ; compenser des dépenses qu’on a fait faire ou des pertes qu’on a causées.
- 2Verser le capital d'une rente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rembourser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vainement avaient-ils stipulé qu'on ne pourrait les rembourser qu'en écus ; il n'en fallait pas moins qu'ils reçussent leur remboursement en assignats.
Dans le dispositif gouvernemental, les transporteurs sont soumis à la taxe carbone, mais elle leur est remboursée, au même titre qu’une fraction de la TIPP.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ermbourser
- rebmourser
- rembbourser
- remboruser
- rembouresr
- rembourrser
- rembourserr
- remboursre
- remboursser
- rembousrer
- rembuorser
- remmbourser
- remoburser
- rmebourser
- rrembourser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rembourser - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).