sphère

/\sfɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,894

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

sphère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Surface dans l’espace à trois dimensions dont tous les points sont situés à une même distance d’un point appelé centre. Pronounced \sfɛʁ\. It ranks #6,894 in French word frequency. Often confused with spire and sphères.

Key facts for sphère
PropertyValue
Headwordsphère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sfɛʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,894
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sphère in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sphère is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sfɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,894 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sphère, with forms such as "pshère", "shpère", and "sphere". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "spire", "sphères", "shore", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sphère, spelled S-P-H-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Surface dans l’espace à trois dimensions dont tous les points sont situés à une même distance d’un point appelé centre.
  2. 2
    La sphère de dimension n, notée Sⁿ désigne l’ensemble des points de l’espace euclidien Rⁿ à une distance 1 de l’origine 0.
  3. 3
    Voûte du ciel, conçue comme un globe dont la terre serait le centre.
  4. 4
    Boule mobile autour de son axe et légèrement inclinée qui représente la voûte céleste ou le globe terrestre.
  5. 5
    Espace dans lequel la vertu, l’influence d’un agent naturel peut s’étendre et hors duquel elle n’a pas d’action appréciable.
  6. 6
    Domaine où s’exerce l’activité de quelqu’un.
  7. 7
    Étendue de pouvoir, d’influence, de connaissances, de talent.
  8. 8
    Meuble représentant l’objet géométrique du même nom dans les armoiries. L’utilisation d’un objet tridimensionnel est rare en héraldique qui préfère les éléments à 2 dimensions. En effet, la confusion entre une sphère et un tourteau ou besant vu de loin est aisée. À rapprocher de globe, monde et sphère armillaire.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pshère,shpère,sphere,sphhère,sphrèe,sphèer,sphèrre,spphère,spèhre,ssphère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sphère

Misspelling Variants of "sphère"

pshère6shpère6sphere6sphhère7sphrèe6sphèer6sphèrre7spphère7
Misspelling Variants of "sphère"

Frequency rank: #6,894 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sphère"?
"sphère" is spelled S-P-H-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sfɛʁ\.
What does "sphère" mean?
As a noun, "sphère" means: Surface dans l’espace à trois dimensions dont tous les points sont situés à une même distance d’un point appelé centre.
What words are commonly confused with "sphère"?
"sphère" is commonly confused with "spire", "sphères", "shore". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sphère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sphère" is \sfɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sphère" come from?
"sphère" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.