conserve
\kɔ̃.sɛʁv\
The verdict
“conserve” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,561. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,561
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte de préserver des aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conserve · conserve · French
conserve · rank #4,561 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,561
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH conclure
Nearest frequency peer: conclure (-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 « conserve »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commerciales
commerciales
95,443 corpus weight
- conclure
conclure
95,441 corpus weight
- conserve
conserve
95,440 corpus weight
- contacts
contacts
95,439 corpus weight
- contemporain
contemporain
95,438 corpus weight
- dictionnaire
dictionnaire
95,437 corpus weight
What this shows « conserve » 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 | conserve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.sɛʁv\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « conserve »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around conserve (IPA \kɔ̃.sɛʁv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,561 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for conserve, with forms such as "cconserve", "cnoserve", and "conesrve". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "converse", "conserver", "conservés", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is conserve, spelled C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E.
Definition
- 1Acte de préserver des aliments.
- 2Toute sorte de substances alimentaires, cuites et conservées dans des boîtes ou dans des bouteilles hermétiquement fermées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conserve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
des marchands de conserves, à la porte desquels des barriques défoncées débordaient d’une choucroute jaune.
Pour éviter les conserves, nous mangeons la soupe deux fois par jour.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconserve
- cnoserve
- conesrve
- connserve
- conserev
- conserrve
- conservve
- consevre
- consreve
- consserve
- cosnerve
- ocnserve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conserve - 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 "conserve", 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).