driver
\dʁaj.vœʁ\
The verdict
“driver” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,812
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Club de golf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-driver · driver · French
driver · rank #19,812 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,812
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douaniers
Nearest frequency peer: douaniers (-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 « driver »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distributio…
distributions
80,192 corpus weight
- distribuée
distribuée
80,191 corpus weight
- douaniers
douaniers
80,190 corpus weight
- driver
driver
80,189 corpus weight
- débauche
débauche
80,188 corpus weight
- débordement
débordement
80,187 corpus weight
What this shows « driver » 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 | driver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁaj.vœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « driver »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around driver (IPA \dʁaj.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,812 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for driver, with forms such as "ddriver", "dirver", and "drievr". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "drivers", "dive", "drive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 driver, spelled D-R-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Club de golf.
- 2Joueur qui drive, qui effectue un drive.
- 3Pilote d’installation.
- 4Conducteur d’attelage (au trot attelé).
- 5Conducteur (de taxi…).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how driver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le driver JDBC convertit ensuite ce type en type SQL BLOB.
Un bon driver est au moins aussi rare qu’un bon jockey, car il doit trouver dans le tact, l’habileté de sa main et son sentiment parfait des moyens de son cheval, tout ce que le cavalier apprécie plus directement, puisqu’il est en contact avec lui, et peut lui communiquer, par ses aides, sa pensée immédiate, agir sur tout son organisme et provoquer opport…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddriver
- dirver
- drievr
- driverr
- drivre
- drivver
- drriver
- drvier
- rdiver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of driver - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).