civière
\si.vjɛʁ\
The verdict
“civière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,403
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif muni de brancards sur lequel on porte à bras des fardeaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-civiere · civière · French
civière · rank #31,403 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,403
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH civic
Nearest frequency peer: civic (-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 « civière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- clasico
clasico
68,596 corpus weight
What this shows « civière » 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 | civière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.vjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « civière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around civière (IPA \si.vjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,403 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for civière, with forms such as "ccivière", "ciivère", and "civiere". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "civile", "cuvier", "civique", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 civière, spelled C-I-V-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dispositif muni de brancards sur lequel on porte à bras des fardeaux.
- 2Dispositif destiné au portage des malades et blessés.
- 3Anciennement, noble sans fief, du dernier ordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how civière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les séances de nettoyage des étables, la samedi matin, étaient bien dures aussi. C’est avec le Louis que j’effectuais ce travail. Nous avions une grosse civière de chêne que je trouvais déjà lourde sans qu’elle fût chargée. Munis chacun d’un « bigot », nous piquions violemment dans la couche épaisse de fumier chaud et nous entassions sur la civière des «…
Avait-elle rêvé ce qu'elle racontait d'un homme tombé au bout de la rue la Huchette et emporté sur une civière ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccivière
- ciivère
- civiere
- civirèe
- civièer
- civièrre
- civvière
- civèire
- cviière
- icvière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of civière - 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
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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).