requiem
\ʁe.kɥi.jɛm\
The verdict
“requiem” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,111. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,111
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prière que l’Église fait pour les morts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-requiem · requiem · French
requiem · rank #29,111 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,111
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reproduite
Nearest frequency peer: reproduite (-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 « requiem »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- renseignez
renseignez
70,893 corpus weight
- repeindre
repeindre
70,892 corpus weight
- reproduite
reproduite
70,891 corpus weight
- requiem
requiem
70,890 corpus weight
- respectait
respectait
70,889 corpus weight
- respirent
respirent
70,888 corpus weight
What this shows « requiem » 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 | requiem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.kɥi.jɛm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « requiem »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around requiem (IPA \ʁe.kɥi.jɛm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,111 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for requiem, with forms such as "erquiem", "reqiuem", and "reqquiem". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "requis", "requin", "requins", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 requiem, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-E-M.
Definition
- 1Prière que l’Église fait pour les morts.
- 2Messe de requiem mise en musique.
- 3Fin de quelque chose.
- 4Musique jouée avant ou durant l'enterrement de quelqu'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how requiem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chanter un requiem, des requiem.
Messe de requiem « messe qui se dit pour le repos des âmes des morts ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erquiem
- reqiuem
- reqquiem
- requeim
- requiemm
- requime
- reuqiem
- rqeuiem
- rrequiem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of requiem - 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).