chavirer
\ʃa.vi.ʁe\
The verdict
“chavirer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,227
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tourner sens dessus dessous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-chavirer · chavirer · French
chavirer · rank #37,227 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,227
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH charts
Nearest frequency peer: charts (-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 « chavirer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chardon
chardon
62,777 corpus weight
- charts
charts
62,775 corpus weight
- chavirer
chavirer
62,774 corpus weight
- chevreuse
chevreuse
62,773 corpus weight
- chorégraphi…
chorégraphique
62,772 corpus weight
- Chypriote
Chypriote
62,771 corpus weight
What this shows « chavirer » 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 | chavirer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʃa.vi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « chavirer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around chavirer (IPA \ʃa.vi.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,227 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for chavirer, with forms such as "cahvirer", "cchavirer", and "chaivrer". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "clavier", "chaire", "chaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is chavirer, spelled C-H-A-V-I-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tourner sens dessus dessous.
- 2Tourner sens dessus dessous.
- 3Renverser une embarcation et perdre définitivement son équilibre.
- 4Renverser.
- 5Basculer, partir en arrière.
- 6Faire retourner.
- 7Faire tourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chavirer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son intelligence chavire.
En réalité, elle demeura rivée à sa place, les yeux exorbités, le cerveau chaviré dans l'horreur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cahvirer
- cchavirer
- chaivrer
- chavierr
- chavirerr
- chavirre
- chavirrer
- chavrier
- chavvirer
- chhavirer
- chvairer
- hcavirer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chavirer - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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