corvette
\kɔʁ.vɛt\
The verdict
“corvette” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,756. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,756
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtiment de guerre intermédiaire entre la frégate et le brick.
Corpus desk
Index FR-corvette · corvette · French
corvette · rank #27,756 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,756
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cotation
Nearest frequency peer: cotation (+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 « corvette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- copa
copa
72,248 corpus weight
- corona
corona
72,247 corpus weight
- corvette
corvette
72,245 corpus weight
- cotation
cotation
72,244 corpus weight
- couchent
couchent
72,243 corpus weight
- Courbevoie
Courbevoie
72,242 corpus weight
What this shows « corvette » 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 | corvette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔʁ.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « corvette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around corvette (IPA \kɔʁ.vɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,756 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for corvette, with forms such as "ccorvette", "corevtte", and "corrvette". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "couette", "cuvette", "Cosette", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is corvette, spelled C-O-R-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment de guerre intermédiaire entre la frégate et le brick.
- 2Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, navire de guerre chargé de l'accompagnement des convois et spécialement équipé pour la lutte contre les sous-marins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how corvette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’heure passait et la corvette larguait ses voiles.
En France, on ne connaît guère l’Islande que par la relation, vieille de près d'un demi-siècle, du voyage exécuté à bord de la corvette la Recherche par la commission scientifique du Nord, sous la direction de M. Gaimard et sous les auspices du gouvernement de Louis-Philippe.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccorvette
- corevtte
- corrvette
- corvete
- corvetet
- corvtete
- corvvette
- covrette
- crovette
- ocrvette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of corvette - 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 "corvette", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).