fervente
\fɛʁ.vɑ̃t\
The verdict
“fervente” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,614
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Admiratrice absolue, femme qui a de la ferveur pour quelque chose ou quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fervente · fervente · French
fervente · rank #45,614 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,614
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Ferrières
Nearest frequency peer: Ferrières (-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 « fervente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- faussée
faussée
54,390 corpus weight
- Fellini
Fellini
54,389 corpus weight
- Ferrières
Ferrières
54,388 corpus weight
- fervente
fervente
54,387 corpus weight
- fk
fk
54,386 corpus weight
- florin
florin
54,385 corpus weight
What this shows « fervente » 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 | fervente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.vɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fervente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around fervente (IPA \fɛʁ.vɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,614 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Admiratrice absolue, femme qui a de la ferveur pour quelque chose ou quelqu’un.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for fervente, with forms such as "efrvente", "ferevnte", and "ferrvente". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fervents", "ferment", "fermeté", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 fervente, spelled F-E-R-V-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Admiratrice absolue, femme qui a de la ferveur pour quelque chose ou quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fervente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le couvent espagnol était par excellence le couvent catholique. […] Les ferventes étaient choisies en songe et possédaient Christ. La nuit, le beau jeune homme nu descendait de la croix et devenait l’extase de la cellule.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efrvente
- ferevnte
- ferrvente
- fervenet
- fervennte
- ferventte
- fervetne
- fervnete
- fervvente
- fevrente
- ffervente
- frevente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fervente - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fervente", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).