given
\ˈɡɪv.ən\
The verdict
“given” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,680. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,680
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé de give.
Corpus desk
Index FR-given · given · French
given · rank #49,680 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,680
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glue
Nearest frequency peer: glue (+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 « given »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gavage
gavage
50,325 corpus weight
- Gilberto
Gilberto
50,323 corpus weight
- given
given
50,321 corpus weight
- glue
glue
50,320 corpus weight
- gorilla
gorilla
50,319 corpus weight
- Graeme
Graeme
50,317 corpus weight
What this shows « given » 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 | given |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈɡɪv.ən\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « given »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around given (IPA \ˈɡɪv.ən\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,680 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé de give.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for given, with forms such as "ggiven", "gievn", and "givenn". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "green", "gen", "Gin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is given, spelled G-I-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1Participe passé de give.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggiven
- gievn
- givenn
- givne
- givven
- gvien
- igven
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of given - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).