civic
\ˈsɪv.ɪk\
The verdict
“civic” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,402. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,402
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Civique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-civic · civic · French
civic · rank #31,402 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,402
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cicatrisation
Nearest frequency peer: cicatrisation (-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 « civic »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chilienne
chilienne
68,602 corpus weight
- ciblage
ciblage
68,601 corpus weight
- cicatrisati…
cicatrisation
68,600 corpus weight
- civic
civic
68,599 corpus weight
- civière
civière
68,598 corpus weight
- clarinette
clarinette
68,597 corpus weight
What this shows « civic » 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 | civic |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈsɪv.ɪk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « civic »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around civic (IPA \ˈsɪv.ɪk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,402 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Civique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for civic, with forms such as "ccivic", "ciivc", and "civci". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "clic", "civil", "Covid", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 civic, spelled C-I-V-I-C.
Definition
- 1Civique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccivic
- ciivc
- civci
- civicc
- civvic
- cviic
- icvic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of civic - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "civic", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).