Alves

name

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The verdict

“Alves” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,047
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alves · Alves · French

Alves · rank #28,047 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,047
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH alcoolisées

Nearest frequency peer: alcoolisées (-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 « Alves »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Alves » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Alves vs ave
40% similar
Alves vs AVS
20% similar
Alves vs avec
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Alves
PropertyValue
HeadwordAlves
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#28,047
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alves »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Alvesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « alcoolisées » (#28,046), « amar » (#28,048), « ajoutera » (#28,045). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Alves » est au #28,047. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Alves, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,047 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alves, with forms such as "alevs", "allves", and "alvess". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ave", "AVS", "avec", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Alves, spelled A-L-V-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Alves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans l’affaire Alves, les employés de la discothèque ont empêché l’accès aux toilettes VIP, lieu présumé de l’agression, et ils ont remis les bandes de vidéosurveillance à la police.
  2. « Ça peut déstabiliser les élèves qui n’auront reçu aucune proposition, et, à l’inverse, démobiliser ceux qui auront été admis et ne verront pas l’intérêt de travailler beaucoup pour leurs épreuves », relève Gwenn Thomas-Alves.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alevs
  • allves
  • alvess
  • alvse
  • alvves
  • avles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alves - 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.

alevs2allves1alvess1alvse2alvves1avles2
Edit distance from "Alves"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Alves"?
"Alves" is spelled A-L-V-E-S.
What does "Alves" mean?
As a proper noun, "Alves" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Alves"?
"Alves" is commonly confused with "ave", "AVS", "avec". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Alves" come from?
"Alves" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Alves", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Adler#28,041Aquin#28,053addis#28,040bagne#28,066

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

abbesse6 variantsCory6 variantsErika6 variantsrallie6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list