favoured
/ˈfeɪ.vɚd/
"favoured" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“favoured” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,915. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,915
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Treated or regarded with partiality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-favoured · favoured · English
favoured · rank #13,915 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,915
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH faux
Nearest frequency peer: faux (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “favoured”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- entitlement
entitlement
86,089 corpus weight
- faux
faux
86,087 corpus weight
- favoured
favoured
86,086 corpus weight
- fearless
fearless
86,085 corpus weight
- finch
finch
86,084 corpus weight
- fragment
fragment
86,083 corpus weight
What this shows “favoured” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | favoured |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “favoured”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around favoured (IPA /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,915 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for favoured, with forms such as "afvoured", "faovured", and "favorued". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "favours", "flavored", "flavoured", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is favoured, spelled F-A-V-O-U-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Treated or regarded with partiality.
- 2Having a certain appearance or physical features.
- 3Wearing a favour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how favoured appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured
a white-favoured footman
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afvoured
- faovured
- favorued
- favouerd
- favourde
- favouredd
- favourred
- favuored
- favvoured
- ffavoured
- fvaoured
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of favoured - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "favoured", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).