sphère
\sfɛʁ\
The verdict
“sphère” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,894 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,894
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Surface dans l’espace à trois dimensions dont tous les points sont situés à une même distance d’un point appelé centre.
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 | sphère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sfɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,894 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sphère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sphère is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sphère, with forms such as "pshère", "shpère", and "sphere". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "spire", "sphères", "shore", 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 sphère, spelled S-P-H-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Surface dans l’espace à trois dimensions dont tous les points sont situés à une même distance d’un point appelé centre.
- 2La sphère de dimension n, notée Sⁿ désigne l’ensemble des points de l’espace euclidien Rⁿ à une distance 1 de l’origine 0.
- 3Voûte du ciel, conçue comme un globe dont la terre serait le centre.
- 4Boule mobile autour de son axe et légèrement inclinée qui représente la voûte céleste ou le globe terrestre.
- 5Espace dans lequel la vertu, l’influence d’un agent naturel peut s’étendre et hors duquel elle n’a pas d’action appréciable.
- 6Domaine où s’exerce l’activité de quelqu’un.
- 7Étendue de pouvoir, d’influence, de connaissances, de talent.
- 8Meuble 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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pshère,shpère,sphere,sphhère,sphrèe,sphèer,sphèrre,spphère,spèhre,ssphère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sphère - 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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Using “sphère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-P-H-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sfɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “spire” - see the side-by-side comparison. sphère vs spire
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.