Covid
\kɔ.vid\
The verdict
“Covid” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,237. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,237
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (En parlant d’un malade) Qui est atteint de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19).
Corpus desk
Index FR-covid · Covid · French
Covid · rank #14,237 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,237
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH couvertes
Nearest frequency peer: couvertes (-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 « Covid »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contrôlent
contrôlent
85,768 corpus weight
- cost
cost
85,767 corpus weight
- couvertes
couvertes
85,765 corpus weight
- Covid
Covid
85,764 corpus weight
- croyaient
croyaient
85,762 corpus weight
- cruelle
cruelle
85,761 corpus weight
What this shows « Covid » 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 | Covid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɔ.vid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Covid »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Covid (IPA \kɔ.vid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,237 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Covid, with forms such as "ccovid", "coivd", and "covdi". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "cod", "cid", "coi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Covid, spelled C-O-V-I-D.
Definition
- 1(En parlant d’un malade) Qui est atteint de la maladie à coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19).
- 2Qui intervient pendant le cours de la pandémie de maladie à coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Covid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La coordination du parcours du patient non Covid ou Covid est sous la responsabilité du médecin traitant. En cas d’urgence absolue, le recours reste le 15.
Nous assurons ces tournées sur nos jours de repos respectifs de façon à ne pas mélanger nos patients sains et les patients Covid.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccovid
- coivd
- covdi
- covidd
- covvid
- cvoid
- ocvid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Covid - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).