réussir
\ʁe.y.siʁ\
The verdict
“réussir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,543. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,543
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avoir une bonne ou une mauvaise issue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reussir · réussir · French
réussir · rank #2,543 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,543
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH routes
Nearest frequency peer: routes (-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 « réussir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- preuves
preuves
97,461 corpus weight
- rouges
rouges
97,460 corpus weight
- routes
routes
97,459 corpus weight
- réussir
réussir
97,458 corpus weight
- score
score
97,456 corpus weight
- sors
sors
97,455 corpus weight
What this shows « réussir » 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 | réussir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.y.siʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « réussir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around réussir (IPA \ʁe.y.siʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,543 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for réussir, with forms such as "reussir", "rréussir", and "ruéssir". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Russie", "Russia", "réussis", 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 réussir, spelled R-É-U-S-S-I-R.
Definition
- 1Avoir une bonne ou une mauvaise issue.
- 2Avoir une issue heureuse.
- 3Donner un produit ou un résultat satisfaisant.
- 4Arriver à une issue heureuse.
- 5Accomplir quelque chose avec succès ; mener à bien quelque chose ; venir à bout de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réussir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut voir comment ce projet réussira.
Cela lui a mal réussi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- reussir
- rréussir
- ruéssir
- résusir
- réusir
- réusisr
- réussirr
- réussri
- érussir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of réussir - 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 "réussir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).