faveur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,392
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
faveur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Marque d’une bienveillante attention ou d’une préférence particulière. Pronounced \fa.vœʁ\. It ranks #1,392 in French word frequency. Often confused with fleur and fever.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faveur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fa.vœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faveur is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fa.vœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,392 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for faveur, with forms such as "afveur", "faevur", and "faveru". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is faveur, spelled F-A-V-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marque d’une bienveillante attention ou d’une préférence particulière.
- 2Marques de préférence qu’une femme donne à un homme.
- 3Bienveillance, des bonnes grâces d’un personnage puissant, du public.
- 4Crédit, du pouvoir qu’on a auprès d’un grand personnage, dont on est aimé, préféré.
- 5Se dit encore par opposition à rigueur, à sévérité.
- 6Sorte de ruban étroit et très léger, que les dames donnaient à un chevalier.
- 7Pâtisserie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afveur,faevur,faveru,faveurr,favuer,favveur,ffaveur,fvaeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "faveur"
Frequency rank: #1,392 in French
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