envahir
\ɑ̃.va.iʁ\
The verdict
“envahir” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,762
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Occuper par force, avec violence, en parlant des humains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-envahir · envahir · French
envahir · rank #11,762 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,762
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH engendre
Nearest frequency peer: engendre (-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 « envahir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- détestent
détestent
88,242 corpus weight
- engendre
engendre
88,240 corpus weight
- envahir
envahir
88,239 corpus weight
- envoyées
envoyées
88,238 corpus weight
- escroquerie
escroquerie
88,237 corpus weight
- eur
eur
88,236 corpus weight
What this shows « envahir » 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 | envahir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.va.iʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « envahir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around envahir (IPA \ɑ̃.va.iʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,762 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for envahir, with forms such as "enavhir", "ennvahir", and "envahhir". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "envahit", "envahis", "envahi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 envahir, spelled E-N-V-A-H-I-R.
Definition
- 1Occuper par force, avec violence, en parlant des humains.
- 2Occuper en nombre un espace que l'on s’approprie de fait.
- 3S’installer à une place occupée auparavant par autre chose.
- 4Prendre beaucoup de place en parlant des choses humaines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how envahir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A la suite du terrible massacre des juifs de la péninsule ibérique, en 1391, le Call de Perpignan fut envahi, en 1392, et devint la proie du meurtre et du pillage.
Historiquement, lorsqu'une ethnie envahit le territoire d'une autre ethnie, elle la réduit habituellement en servitude.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enavhir
- ennvahir
- envahhir
- envahirr
- envahri
- envaihr
- envhair
- envvahir
- evnahir
- nevahir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of envahir - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).