Clovis
\klɔ.vis\
The verdict
“Clovis” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,668
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-clovis · Clovis · French
Clovis · rank #20,668 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,668
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH Claudine
Nearest frequency peer: Claudine (-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 « Clovis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cerfs
cerfs
79,336 corpus weight
- chenille
chenille
79,335 corpus weight
- Claudine
Claudine
79,334 corpus weight
- Clovis
Clovis
79,333 corpus weight
- clémentine
clémentine
79,332 corpus weight
- collants
collants
79,331 corpus weight
What this shows « Clovis » 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 | Clovis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \klɔ.vis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Clovis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Clovis (IPA \klɔ.vis\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,668 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Clovis, with forms such as "cclovis", "cllovis", and "cloivs". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "crois", "colis", "Covid", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Clovis, spelled C-L-O-V-I-S.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Clovis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon agitation était si grande qu’à l’entrée du parc, je me suis arrêté longtemps pour regarder le vieux jardinier Clovis fagotant du bois mort comme à l’ordinaire.
Parmi les films en compétition, on trouve notamment Les Têtes givrées, avec Claudia Tagbo et Clovis Cornillac, ou Les Complices, avec François Damiens.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclovis
- cllovis
- cloivs
- cloviss
- clovsi
- clovvis
- clvois
- colvis
- lcovis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Clovis - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).