sire
\siʁ\
The verdict
“sire” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,914. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seigneur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sire · sire · French
sire · rank #9,914 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,914
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Sicile
Nearest frequency peer: Sicile (-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 « sire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- répandue
répandue
90,090 corpus weight
- sentiers
sentiers
90,089 corpus weight
- Sicile
Sicile
90,088 corpus weight
- sire
sire
90,087 corpus weight
- souhaitons
souhaitons
90,086 corpus weight
- soupçons
soupçons
90,085 corpus weight
What this shows « sire » 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 | sire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \siʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « sire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around sire (IPA \siʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,914 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for sire, with forms such as "isre", "sier", and "sirre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sr", "sur", "six", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sire, spelled S-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Seigneur.
- 2Titre que l’on donne aux empereurs et aux rois, en leur parlant ou en leur écrivant.
- 3Étalon qui a engendré une lignée reconnue.
- 4Individu peu recommandable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et me fut dit que le sire de la Trémoille étoit envoyé de par le duc et les seigneurs au roi, à Paris, pour savoir son plaisir, et pour impétrer que on les pût combattre.
L’archevêque défendit à ses sujets de payer au sire de Beaujeu le cens d’un brotteau, ou terre à faire paître le bétail, près du pont du Rhône, brotteau dont les sires de Beaujeu s’étaient emparés […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isre
- sier
- sirre
- srie
- ssire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sire - 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 "sire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (5 here; floor ≥5).