above
\ə.ˈbʌv\
The verdict
“above” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,621. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,621
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au-dessus de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-above · above · French
above · rank #41,621 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,621
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abaissée
Nearest frequency peer: abaissée (-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 « above »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 4D
4D
58,383 corpus weight
- abaissée
abaissée
58,381 corpus weight
- above
above
58,380 corpus weight
- accentuant
accentuant
58,377 corpus weight
- accoutrement
accoutrement
58,376 corpus weight
- acrobate
acrobate
58,375 corpus weight
What this shows « above » 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 | above |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \ə.ˈbʌv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « above »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around above (IPA \ə.ˈbʌv\), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #41,621 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Au-dessus de.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for above, with forms such as "abbove", "aboev", and "abovve". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ave", "adoré", "avoué", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is above, spelled A-B-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1Au-dessus de.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbove
- aboev
- abovve
- abvoe
- aobve
- baove
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of above - 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).