événement
\e.vɛn.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“événement” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,844
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de évènement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-evenement · événement · French
événement · rank #1,844 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,844
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH vieille
Nearest frequency peer: vieille (-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 « événement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trouvent
trouvent
98,160 corpus weight
- télévision
télévision
98,159 corpus weight
- vieille
vieille
98,158 corpus weight
- événement
événement
98,157 corpus weight
- accueil
accueil
98,156 corpus weight
- agents
agents
98,155 corpus weight
What this shows « événement » 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 | événement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.vɛn.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « événement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around événement (IPA \e.vɛn.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,844 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de évènement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for événement, with forms such as "evenement", "véénement", and "évnéement". 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, "évidement", "évitement", "événements", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is événement, spelled É-V-É-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de évènement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how événement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une accusation de complot contre la vie de Napoléon III fut abandonnée par prudence ; l’idée était dans l’air, on craignait d’évoquer l’événement.
Ces légers événements s’évanouissent comme des scènes de comédie sur lesquelles le rideau tombe.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evenement
- véénement
- évnéement
- évvénement
- évéenment
- événeemnt
- événemennt
- événementt
- événemetn
- événemment
- événemnet
- événmeent
- événnement
- éévnement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of événement - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "événement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).