rongeurs
\ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\
The verdict
“rongeurs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,449
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mammifères au régime alimentaire de type rongeur, pourvus de longues incisives à croissance continue, en petit nombre, usées en biseau et n'ayant pas de canines mais un espace vide appelé diastème ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-rongeurs · rongeurs · French
rongeurs · rank #21,449 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,449
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH romero
Nearest frequency peer: romero (-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 « rongeurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- retirez
retirez
78,555 corpus weight
- riviera
riviera
78,554 corpus weight
- romero
romero
78,553 corpus weight
- rongeurs
rongeurs
78,552 corpus weight
- roulettes
roulettes
78,551 corpus weight
- Roussel
Roussel
78,550 corpus weight
What this shows « rongeurs » 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 | rongeurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rongeurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around rongeurs (IPA \ʁɔ̃.ʒœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,449 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mammifères au régime alimentaire de type rongeur, pourvus de longues incisives à croissance continue, en petit nombre, usées en biseau et n'ayant pas de canines mais un espace vide appelé diastème ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for rongeurs, with forms such as "orngeurs", "rnogeurs", and "rogneurs". 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, "rougeur", "routeurs", "rougeurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rongeurs, spelled R-O-N-G-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Mammifères au régime alimentaire de type rongeur, pourvus de longues incisives à croissance continue, en petit nombre, usées en biseau et n'ayant pas de canines mais un espace vide appelé diastème : ce qui correspond aux glires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orngeurs
- rnogeurs
- rogneurs
- ronegurs
- rongerus
- rongeurrs
- rongeurss
- rongeusr
- ronggeurs
- ronguers
- ronngeurs
- rrongeurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rongeurs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "rongeurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).