fièvre
\fjɛvʁ\
The verdict
“fièvre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,248
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d'un animal (y compris un être humain) dont la température corporelle dépasse sa valeur normale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fievre · fièvre · French
fièvre · rank #5,248 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,248
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fière
Nearest frequency peer: fière (-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 « fièvre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exploser
exploser
94,756 corpus weight
- fixer
fixer
94,755 corpus weight
- fière
fière
94,754 corpus weight
- fièvre
fièvre
94,753 corpus weight
- Francis
Francis
94,752 corpus weight
- Grille
Grille
94,751 corpus weight
What this shows « fièvre » 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 | fièvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fjɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fièvre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fièvre (IPA \fjɛvʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,248 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fièvre, with forms such as "ffièvre", "fievre", and "fivère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "fire", "five", "frère", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is fièvre, spelled F-I-È-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1État d'un animal (y compris un être humain) dont la température corporelle dépasse sa valeur normale.
- 2Émotion forte, d’un trouble violent de l’âme.
- 3Surexcitation causée par une occupation passionnante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fièvre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'œuf pondu le vendredi saint préservait de la foudre, mangé il garantissait de la fièvre ou de la rage...
Beaucoup d’observateurs admettent l’existence de plusieurs espèces d’hématozoaires du paludisme : hématozoaires des fièvres tropicales, de la tierce et de la quarte. Je pense qu'il s'agit de simples variétés d'une même espèce polymorphe.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffièvre
- fievre
- fivère
- fièrve
- fièver
- fièvrre
- fièvvre
- fèivre
- ifèvre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fièvre - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).