routière
\ʁu.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“routière” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,495
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conductrice de camion ou de camionnette, qui assure le transport par la route.
Corpus desk
Index FR-routiere · routière · French
routière · rank #7,495 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,495
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rompre
Nearest frequency peer: rompre (-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 « routière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- repousser
repousser
92,509 corpus weight
- représentée
représentée
92,508 corpus weight
- rompre
rompre
92,507 corpus weight
- routière
routière
92,506 corpus weight
- scénarios
scénarios
92,505 corpus weight
- semblables
semblables
92,504 corpus weight
What this shows « routière » 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 | routière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « routière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around routière (IPA \ʁu.tjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,495 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for routière, with forms such as "orutière", "rotuière", and "rouitère". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "routine", "routiers", "routières", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is routière, spelled R-O-U-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Conductrice de camion ou de camionnette, qui assure le transport par la route.
- 2Type de moto, de voiture, conçu pour la conduite sur route ou autoroute.
- 3Prostituée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how routière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Je suis devenue routière pour les émotions que procure ce métier, raconte Ioulia Lazareva, 26 ans, originaire d’Eupatoria, en Crimée. J’aime être la plus grande sur la route, que tout le monde soit à mes pieds. »
Confortables et cossues, les routières permettent de voyager dans de très bonnes conditions.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orutière
- rotuière
- rouitère
- routiere
- routirèe
- routièer
- routièrre
- routtière
- routèire
- rroutière
- ruotière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of routière - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "routière", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).