écrivain
\e.kʁi.vɛ̃\
The verdict
“écrivain” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,116
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont le métier est d’écrire pour autrui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ecrivain · écrivain · French
écrivain · rank #3,116 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,116
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH voler
Nearest frequency peer: voler (-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 « écrivain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ventre
ventre
96,888 corpus weight
- virus
virus
96,887 corpus weight
- voler
voler
96,886 corpus weight
- écrivain
écrivain
96,885 corpus weight
- abri
abri
96,883 corpus weight
- accompagné
accompagné
96,882 corpus weight
What this shows « écrivain » 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 | écrivain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.kʁi.vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « écrivain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around écrivain (IPA \e.kʁi.vɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,116 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for écrivain, with forms such as "cérivain", "ecrivain", and "éccrivain". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "écrivit", "écrivait", "écrivant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is écrivain, spelled É-C-R-I-V-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Celui dont le métier est d’écrire pour autrui.
- 2Personne dont l’occupation ou le métier consiste à écrire des ouvrages.
- 3Auteur distingué par les qualités de son style.
- 4Agent assurant à bord d’un navire des fonctions de secrétaire et de comptable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how écrivain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une sorte de psychisme, tout comme l’agora-phobie ou la crampe des écrivains, devenue après l’emploi de la machine à écrire, la crampe des dactylographes.
Il est de jeunes écrivains qui ne lisent pas Hugo. C’est pourquoi ils ont tant de certitudes heureuses et atteignent promptement au talent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cérivain
- ecrivain
- éccrivain
- écirvain
- écriavin
- écrivainn
- écrivani
- écrivian
- écrivvain
- écrrivain
- écrviain
- ércivain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of écrivain - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "écrivain", 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).