faveur

\fa.vœʁ\

/\fa.vœʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“faveur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,392. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,392
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marque d’une bienveillante attention ou d’une préférence particulière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-faveur · faveur · French

faveur · rank #1,392 · 8 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,392
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH européen

Nearest frequency peer: européen (-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 « faveur »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « faveur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

faveur vs fleur
67% similar
faveur vs fever
67% similar
faveur vs fureur
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for faveur
PropertyValue
Headwordfaveur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fa.vœʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#1,392
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « faveur »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).faveurse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « européen » (#1,391), « front » (#1,393), « désolé » (#1,390). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « faveur » est au #1,392. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around faveur (IPA \fa.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,392 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for faveur, with forms such as "afveur", "faevur", and "faveru". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "fleur", "fever", "fureur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is faveur, spelled F-A-V-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Marque d’une bienveillante attention ou d’une préférence particulière.
  2. 2
    Marques de préférence qu’une femme donne à un homme.
  3. 3
    Bienveillance, des bonnes grâces d’un personnage puissant, du public.
  4. 4
    Crédit, du pouvoir qu’on a auprès d’un grand personnage, dont on est aimé, préféré.
  5. 5
    Se dit encore par opposition à rigueur, à sévérité.
  6. 6
    Sorte de ruban étroit et très léger, que les dames donnaient à un chevalier.
  7. 7
    Pâtisserie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how faveur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La soie artificielle. […] Elle jouit donc d’une place de faveur et d’un certain engouement.
  2. En Belgique, les chèvres étaient assez nombreuses et jouissaient d’une certaine faveur auprès des campagnards, surtout dans les pays ardennais.

This word in other languages

favor(English)favor(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • afveur
  • faevur
  • faveru
  • faveurr
  • favuer
  • favveur
  • ffaveur
  • fvaeur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faveur - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

afveur2faevur2faveru2faveurr1favuer2favveur1ffaveur1fvaeur2
Edit distance from "faveur"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "faveur"?
"faveur" is spelled F-A-V-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \fa.vœʁ\.
What does "faveur" mean?
As a noun, "faveur" means: Marque d’une bienveillante attention ou d’une préférence particulière.
What words are commonly confused with "faveur"?
"faveur" is commonly confused with "fleur", "fever", "fureur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "faveur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "faveur" is \fa.vœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "faveur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "faveur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

désolé#1,390mérite#1,395papier#1,398actuel#1,384

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

front8 variantsprévu8 variantsentrer8 variantssainte8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list