heavy
\ɛ.vi\
The verdict
“heavy” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,854
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heavy metal : forme de musique proche du hard rock, utilisant traditionnellement des guitares, des guitares basses au son plus ou moins saturé, une batterie et un chanteur. D’autres instruments peu...
Corpus desk
Index FR-heavy · heavy · French
heavy · rank #19,854 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,854
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haïtien
Nearest frequency peer: haïtien (-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 « heavy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Halifax
Halifax
80,150 corpus weight
- haïtien
haïtien
80,148 corpus weight
- heavy
heavy
80,147 corpus weight
- hits
hits
80,146 corpus weight
- homicides
homicides
80,145 corpus weight
- hongroise
hongroise
80,144 corpus weight
What this shows « heavy » 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 | heavy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ.vi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « heavy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around heavy (IPA \ɛ.vi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,854 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Heavy metal : forme de musique proche du hard rock, utilisant traditionnellement des guitares, des guitares basses au son plus ou moins saturé, une batterie et un chanteur. D’autres instruments peu...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for heavy, with forms such as "ehavy", "haevy", and "heavvy". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "hey", "henry", "Hervé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is heavy, spelled H-E-A-V-Y.
Definition
- 1Heavy metal : forme de musique proche du hard rock, utilisant traditionnellement des guitares, des guitares basses au son plus ou moins saturé, une batterie et un chanteur. D’autres instruments peuvent être utilisés (piano, synthétiseur, etc.).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how heavy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est notamment le cas de Stamina, un groupe de rock français aux influences rock, punk, heavy, qui s’est formé à Brive en 2017.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehavy
- haevy
- heavvy
- heavyy
- heayv
- hevay
- hheavy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of heavy - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).