achevé
\a.ʃə.ve\
The verdict
“achevé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,267. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,267
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est accompli, parfait, qui a toutes les bonnes qualités de son genre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acheve · achevé · French
achevé · rank #7,267 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,267
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH étroite
Nearest frequency peer: étroite (-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 « achevé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- zoo
zoo
92,738 corpus weight
- étroite
étroite
92,735 corpus weight
- achevé
achevé
92,734 corpus weight
- adolescence
adolescence
92,733 corpus weight
- alternatives
alternatives
92,732 corpus weight
- ambitieux
ambitieux
92,731 corpus weight
What this shows « achevé » 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 | achevé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʃə.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « achevé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around achevé (IPA \a.ʃə.ve\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,267 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for achevé, with forms such as "acchevé", "acehvé", and "acheve". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "athée", "actée", "active", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is achevé, spelled A-C-H-E-V-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est accompli, parfait, qui a toutes les bonnes qualités de son genre.
- 2En mauvaise part de ce qui est extrême dans son genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achevé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ouvrage achevé.
Une oeuvre achevée. Se dit d’une oeuvre sculptée considérée par le sculpteur lui-même comme terminée. Une oeuvre achevée n’est pas forcément finie.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchevé
- acehvé
- acheve
- achevvé
- acheév
- achhevé
- achveé
- ahcevé
- cahevé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of achevé - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "achevé", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).