fièvres
\fjɛvʁ\
The verdict
“fièvres” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,336
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de fièvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fievres · fièvres · French
fièvres · rank #37,336 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,336
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fiscalement
Nearest frequency peer: fiscalement (-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 « fièvres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fiez
fiez
62,668 corpus weight
- figurera
figurera
62,667 corpus weight
- fiscalement
fiscalement
62,666 corpus weight
- fièvres
fièvres
62,665 corpus weight
- flamboyante
flamboyante
62,664 corpus weight
- florins
florins
62,662 corpus weight
What this shows « fièvres » 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 | fièvres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fjɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fièvres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around fièvres (IPA \fjɛvʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,336 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de fièvre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for fièvres, with forms such as "ffièvres", "fievres", and "fivères". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "frères", "figures", "filtres", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fièvres, spelled F-I-È-V-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de fièvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fièvres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À mesure qu’on a drainé, déjonqué, défriché la Bresse, elle a cessé de disséminer des fièvres ; le Bressan, chaussé de sabots sur sa terre de glaise, s’en est regaillardi d’autant, lui qu’on surnommait proverbialement, par une vive allitération, le laid, lourd, long, lent, lâche.
C’est la vérité qu’il n’est pas bien … et j’ai grand'crainte qu’il ne prenne les fièvres après moisson.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffièvres
- fievres
- fivères
- fièrves
- fièvers
- fièvress
- fièvrres
- fièvrse
- fièvvres
- fèivres
- ifèvres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fièvres - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "fièvres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).