envies
\ɑ̃.vi\
The verdict
“envies” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,652. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,652
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de envie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-envies · envies · French
envies · rank #9,652 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,652
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enfermer
Nearest frequency peer: enfermer (-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 « envies »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- démarrage
démarrage
90,352 corpus weight
- déranger
déranger
90,351 corpus weight
- enfermer
enfermer
90,350 corpus weight
- envies
envies
90,349 corpus weight
- excusez
excusez
90,348 corpus weight
- existants
existants
90,347 corpus weight
What this shows « envies » 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 | envies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.vi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « envies »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around envies (IPA \ɑ̃.vi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,652 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de envie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for envies, with forms such as "enives", "ennvies", and "enveis". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "évier", "envoie", "envois", 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 envies, spelled E-N-V-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de envie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how envies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devenir obèse de l’âme, gorger son corps de plaisirs, « cirrhoser » son cœur de voluptés, avoir l’âme toute grasse d’envies impardonnables…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enives
- ennvies
- enveis
- enviess
- envise
- envvies
- evnies
- nevies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of envies - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).