Thiers
\tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“Thiers” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,576. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,576
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thiers · Thiers · French
Thiers · rank #17,576 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,576
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH than
Nearest frequency peer: than (-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 « Thiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- terminologie
terminologie
82,428 corpus weight
- terrifiant
terrifiant
82,427 corpus weight
- than
than
82,426 corpus weight
- Thiers
Thiers
82,425 corpus weight
- thrones
thrones
82,424 corpus weight
- tissage
tissage
82,423 corpus weight
What this shows « Thiers » 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 | Thiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Thiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Thiers (IPA \tjɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,576 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Thiers, with forms such as "htiers", "theirs", and "thhiers". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "this", "tirs", "Tier", 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Thiers, spelled T-H-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
- 2Adolphe Thiers, homme d'État français, 1797-1877.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Thiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi faisait M. Picard, qui, ministre à Bruxelles, trouvait plus commode encore de toucher les appointements attachés à des fonctions qu’il ne remplissait point, et ne débougeait pas de Paris, secondant de son vote docile les caprices de M. Thiers.
Je me vois encore à la fenêtre d’une sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, Mme Jouassaint, rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, au nᵒ 14, dans une maison qui communiquait avec la nôtre, – au premier étage, la première fenêtre à gauche, en regardant la maison, – pour voir passer l’enterrement de Thiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htiers
- theirs
- thhiers
- thierrs
- thierss
- thiesr
- thires
- tihers
- tthiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Thiers - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).