Ruhr
The verdict
“Ruhr” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,978. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,978
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affluent droit du Rhin
Corpus desk
Index FR-ruhr · Ruhr · French
Ruhr · rank #40,978 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,978
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH royalties
Nearest frequency peer: royalties (-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 « Ruhr »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Roselyne
Roselyne
59,026 corpus weight
- rote
rote
59,025 corpus weight
- royalties
royalties
59,024 corpus weight
- Ruhr
Ruhr
59,023 corpus weight
- ruinent
ruinent
59,022 corpus weight
- réduise
réduise
59,021 corpus weight
What this shows « Ruhr » 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 | Ruhr |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ruhr »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Ruhr, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,978 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Affluent droit du Rhin".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ruhr, with forms such as "rhur", "rruhr", and "ruhhr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "run", "rus", "rush", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Ruhr, spelled R-U-H-R.
Definition
- 1Affluent droit du Rhin
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ruhr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vallée de la Ruhr est une région industrielle majeure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rhur
- rruhr
- ruhhr
- ruhrr
- rurh
- urhr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ruhr - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).