five
\ˈfai̯f\
The verdict
“five” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,146. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,146
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 5.
Corpus desk
Index FR-five · five · French
five · rank #15,146 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,146
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH fisher
Nearest frequency peer: fisher (-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 « five »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fallut
fallut
84,858 corpus weight
- fertilité
fertilité
84,857 corpus weight
- fisher
fisher
84,856 corpus weight
- five
five
84,855 corpus weight
- gages
gages
84,853 corpus weight
- Geoffroy
Geoffroy
84,852 corpus weight
What this shows « five » 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 | five |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈfai̯f\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « five »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around five (IPA \ˈfai̯f\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,146 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 5.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for five, with forms such as "ffive", "fiev", and "fivve". 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, "fix", "fle", "fixe", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is five, spelled F-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour le chiffre 5.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffive
- fiev
- fivve
- fvie
- ifve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of five - 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 "five", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).