fleuve

\flœv\

/\flœv\/ noun

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The verdict

“fleuve” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,679
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cours d’eau qui se jette généralement dans la mer ou dans l’océan à son embouchure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-fleuve · fleuve · French

fleuve · rank #3,679 · 8 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,679
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH file

Nearest frequency peer: file (-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 « fleuve »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « fleuve » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

fleuve vs floue
67% similar
fleuve vs flute
67% similar
fleuve vs fleuves
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for fleuve
PropertyValue
Headwordfleuve
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\flœv\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,679
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « fleuve »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).fleuvese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « file » (#3,678), « Gras » (#3,680), « générations » (#3,681). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « fleuve » est au #3,679. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around fleuve (IPA \flœv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,679 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for fleuve, with forms such as "feluve", "ffleuve", and "fleuev". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "floue", "flute", "fleuves", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is fleuve, spelled F-L-E-U-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cours d’eau qui se jette généralement dans la mer ou dans l’océan à son embouchure.
  2. 2
    Flot puissant et ininterrompu de personnes ou de choses.
  3. 3
    Divinité qui préside aux fleuves, et qu’on représente ordinairement sous la figure de vieillard à longue barbe couché sur des roseaux, appuyé sur une urne, la tête ceinte d’une couronne de joncs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fleuve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quatre grands fleuves, ayant leurs sources dans les mêmes montagnes, divisaient ces régions immenses : le fleuve Saint-Laurent qui se perd à l’est dans le golfe de son nom, la rivière de l’Ouest qui porte ses eaux à des mers inconnues, le fleuve Bourbon qui se précipite du midi au nord dans la baie d’Hudson, et le Meschacebé qui tombe du nord au midi dans…
  2. Les grands fleuves, qui n'avaient pas assez de pente pour descendre à la mer, erraient çà et là, comme incertains de la voie à suivre, et croupissaient en grandes flaques stagnantes sur les sables de la côte.

This word in other languages

river(English)río(Español)Fluss(Deutsch)rio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • feluve
  • ffleuve
  • fleuev
  • fleuvve
  • flevue
  • flleuve
  • flueve
  • lfeuve

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fleuve - 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.

feluve2ffleuve1fleuev2fleuvve1flevue2flleuve1flueve2lfeuve2
Edit distance from "fleuve"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fleuve"?
"fleuve" is spelled F-L-E-U-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \flœv\.
What does "fleuve" mean?
As a noun, "fleuve" means: Cours d’eau qui se jette généralement dans la mer ou dans l’océan à son embouchure.
What words are commonly confused with "fleuve"?
"fleuve" is commonly confused with "floue", "flute", "fleuves". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "fleuve"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fleuve" is \flœv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fleuve" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "fleuve", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list