Favre
\favʁ\
The verdict
“Favre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,721
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français, notamment représenté par Jules Favre (1809-1880), avocat et homme politique français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-favre · Favre · French
Favre · rank #20,721 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,721
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fanatique
Nearest frequency peer: fanatique (-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 « Favre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fabriquent
fabriquent
79,283 corpus weight
- falcon
falcon
79,282 corpus weight
- fanatique
fanatique
79,281 corpus weight
- Favre
Favre
79,280 corpus weight
- ficelle
ficelle
79,279 corpus weight
- fiesta
fiesta
79,278 corpus weight
What this shows « Favre » 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 | Favre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \favʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Favre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Favre (IPA \favʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,721 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français, notamment représenté par Jules Favre (1809-1880), avocat et homme politique français.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Favre, with forms such as "afvre", "farve", and "faver". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fire", "five", "Faye", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Favre, spelled F-A-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français, notamment représenté par Jules Favre (1809-1880), avocat et homme politique français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Favre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jules Favre, assistant à l’enterrement de pauvres enfants tués dans Paris par les obus, a dit : « Nous touchons à la fin de nos épreuves. » Cette parole n’a pas été dite à la légère par un homme dont la profonde sensibilité nous a frappés depuis le commencement de nos malheurs.
Ainsi, les recrues Yoan Tanga (Racing 92) et Antoine Hastoy (Pau) ont pris part à l’entraînement collectif, tout comme Pierre Bourgarit, Rémi Picquette et Jules Favre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afvre
- farve
- faver
- favrre
- favvre
- ffavre
- fvare
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Favre - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).