éprouvette
\e.pʁu.vɛt\
The verdict
“éprouvette” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,879. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,879
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrument à l’aide duquel on vérifie la qualité, l’état de certaines matières.
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 | éprouvette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pʁu.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #48,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “éprouvette” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around éprouvette (IPA \e.pʁu.vɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,879 among 40,273 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for éprouvette, with forms such as "eprouvette", "pérouvette", and "époruvette". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "éprouvée", "éprouvent", "éprouvante", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is éprouvette, spelled É-P-R-O-U-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument à l’aide duquel on vérifie la qualité, l’état de certaines matières.
- 2Vase de verre ou de plastique, cylindrique, gradué ou non, destiné particulièrement à recueillir des fluides et employé pour de nombreuses manipulations.
- 3Échantillon ou petite quantité de matière / matériau utilisée pour un essai de matériau, par exemple en contrôle qualité.
- 4Certaines sondes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprouvette
- pérouvette
- époruvette
- épprouvette
- éprouevtte
- éprouvete
- éprouvetet
- éprouvtete
- éprouvvette
- éprovuette
- éprrouvette
- épruovette
- érpouvette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of éprouvette - 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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Using “éprouvette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-P-R-O-U-V-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.pʁu.vɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “éprouvée” - see the side-by-side comparison. éprouvette vs éprouvée
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.