clivages
\kli.vaʒ\
The verdict
“clivages” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,593
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de clivage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clivages · clivages · French
clivages · rank #25,593 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,593
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH clitoris
Nearest frequency peer: clitoris (-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 « clivages »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- châtelain
châtelain
74,411 corpus weight
- cinétique
cinétique
74,410 corpus weight
- clitoris
clitoris
74,409 corpus weight
- clivages
clivages
74,408 corpus weight
- cloisons
cloisons
74,407 corpus weight
- colles
colles
74,405 corpus weight
What this shows « clivages » 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 | clivages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kli.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « clivages »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around clivages (IPA \kli.vaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,593 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de clivage.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for clivages, with forms such as "cclivages", "cilvages", and "cliavges". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "clivage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is clivages, spelled C-L-I-V-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de clivage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clivages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut observer dans la position no 2 ( « le monsieur d’âge moyen ayant perdu la tête » ) l’équivalent d’un mini-effondrement psychotique dont émerge (position no 3), « le petit garçon diabolique » pervers), avec une solution fondée sur les clivages et sur le reversal (renversement des rôles) : un Umberto « fort et méchant » (le « petit garçon » est en r…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclivages
- cilvages
- cliavges
- clivaegs
- clivagess
- clivagges
- clivagse
- clivgaes
- clivvages
- cllivages
- clviages
- lcivages
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clivages - 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 "clivages", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).