spire
\spiʁ\
The verdict
“spire” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,164
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le tour d’une spirale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-spire · spire · French
spire · rank #36,164 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,164
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH souvenons
Nearest frequency peer: souvenons (-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 « spire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sociétaires
sociétaires
63,840 corpus weight
- soutif
soutif
63,839 corpus weight
- souvenons
souvenons
63,838 corpus weight
- spire
spire
63,837 corpus weight
- stagner
stagner
63,836 corpus weight
- subprimes
subprimes
63,835 corpus weight
What this shows « spire » 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 | spire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « spire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around spire (IPA \spiʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,164 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for spire, with forms such as "psire", "sipre", and "spier". 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, "sure", "suie", "suite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is spire, spelled S-P-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Le tour d’une spirale.
- 2Base d’une colonne, quand la figure ou le profil de cette base va en serpentant.
- 3Circuit parcouru par un courant électrique lorsqu’il génère ou subit un champ magnétique.
- 4Un seul tour du circuit électrique d'une bobine, d’un solénoïde, d’un transformateur, destiné à interagir avec un champ magnétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour cela on commence par dissoudre la matière gommeuse qui réunit les différentes spires les unes aux autres […]
Dans les grandes lampes à quatre manchons, il y a deux spires et un petit réservoir à alcool, en forme de coupelle, installé en dessous des spires de gazéification.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psire
- sipre
- spier
- spirre
- sppire
- sprie
- sspire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spire - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).