achever
\a.ʃə.ve\
The verdict
“achever” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,953
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Finir une chose commencée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achever · achever · French
achever · rank #8,953 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,953
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH administrateu…
Nearest frequency peer: administrateurs (+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 « achever »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Abraham
Abraham
91,051 corpus weight
- accumulation
accumulation
91,050 corpus weight
- achever
achever
91,048 corpus weight
- administrat…
administrateurs
91,047 corpus weight
- AG
AG
91,046 corpus weight
- Agnès
Agnès
91,045 corpus weight
What this shows « achever » 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 | achever |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʃə.ve\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « achever »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around achever (IPA \a.ʃə.ve\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,953 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for achever, with forms such as "acchever", "acehver", and "acheevr". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "activer", "achèvera", "achète", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is achever, spelled A-C-H-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Finir une chose commencée.
- 2Cesser quelque chose.
- 3Consommer la ruine, la perte, le malheur (de quelqu’un).
- 4Frapper à mort quelqu’un qui est déjà blessé.
- 5Précipiter la mort d’une personne déjà malade ou vulnérable, par malveillance ou négligence.
- 6Se finir, se terminer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et d'autres lames s’abattaient sans cesse sur l’épave. La mer achevait son œuvre. Encore quelques chocs, et la coque effondrée allait disparaître dans le gouffre tourbillonnant du chenal.
Quand la cristallisation est achevée on sépare les cristaux de la liqueur mère qui se compose principalement d’acide oléique, on les fait recristalliser dans l’alcool à plusieurs reprises.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchever
- acehver
- acheevr
- acheverr
- achevre
- achevver
- achhever
- achveer
- ahcever
- cahever
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of achever - 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 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).