Richter
\ʁiʃ.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“Richter” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,796. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,796
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille allemand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-richter · Richter · French
Richter · rank #25,796 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,796
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rev
Nearest frequency peer: rev (-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 « Richter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reposé
reposé
74,207 corpus weight
- rev
rev
74,206 corpus weight
- Richter
Richter
74,205 corpus weight
- riez
riez
74,204 corpus weight
- rincer
rincer
74,203 corpus weight
- RM
RM
74,202 corpus weight
What this shows « Richter » 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 | Richter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁiʃ.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Richter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Richter (IPA \ʁiʃ.tɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,796 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille allemand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Richter, with forms such as "irchter", "rcihter", and "ricchter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "rocher", "Ritter", "riche", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Richter, spelled R-I-C-H-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille allemand.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irchter
- rcihter
- ricchter
- richetr
- richhter
- richterr
- richtre
- richtter
- ricther
- rihcter
- rrichter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Richter - 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
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