serrure
\se.ʁyʁ\
The verdict
“serrure” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,908
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mécanisme permettant d'ouvrir ou de fermer une porte, un panneau, un vantail, etc., au moyen d’une clé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-serrure · serrure · French
serrure · rank #13,908 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,908
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH schémas
Nearest frequency peer: schémas (-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 « serrure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réclamation
réclamation
86,096 corpus weight
- rêvent
rêvent
86,095 corpus weight
- schémas
schémas
86,094 corpus weight
- serrure
serrure
86,093 corpus weight
- seth
seth
86,092 corpus weight
- Sherlock
Sherlock
86,091 corpus weight
What this shows « serrure » 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 | serrure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \se.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « serrure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around serrure (IPA \se.ʁyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,908 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for serrure, with forms such as "esrrure", "serrrue", and "serruer". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "serrures", "serrurier", "serré", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is serrure, spelled S-E-R-R-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Mécanisme permettant d'ouvrir ou de fermer une porte, un panneau, un vantail, etc., au moyen d’une clé.
- 2Serrure « Bouré » : Serrure de sécurité disposée sur les leviers de manœuvre (signaux, aiguilles, etc.) et rendant impossible une fausse manipulation. Du nom de son inventeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how serrure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là, il s'arrêta et tendit l'oreille. Puis, ne percevant aucun bruit, il introduisit dans une serrure une grosse clef qui grinça et ouvrit une porte mal assujettie sur ses gonds, […].
La clef introduite dans la serrure refusa de tourner et comme le secrétaire la retirait, la porte s’ouvrit toute seule. Voilà qui était bizarre : elle n’était pas verrouillée alors qu’elle aurait dû l’être à double tour.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esrrure
- serrrue
- serruer
- serrurre
- serure
- serurre
- srerure
- sserrure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of serrure - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).