eve
\ew\
The verdict
“eve” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,701) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,701
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eve · eve · French
eve · rank #10,701 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,701
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entrepôt
Nearest frequency peer: entrepôt (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « eve »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- English
English
89,303 corpus weight
- entourent
entourent
89,302 corpus weight
- entrepôt
entrepôt
89,301 corpus weight
- eve
eve
89,300 corpus weight
- exceptionne…
exceptionnelles
89,299 corpus weight
- excepté
excepté
89,298 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « eve » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | eve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ew\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « eve »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eve is neighbouring look-alikes ("ez", "eye", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ew\. Frequency #10,701 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Eau.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for eve, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ez", "eye", "exp", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 eve, spelled E-V-E.
Definition
- 1Eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
l’eve salee , La Chanson de Guillaume, manuscrit de la British Library, fin du XIIᵉ siècle, 5r., au milieu de la 2ᵉ colonne.
Feu e suffre vendra Ki en eves charra
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).