Hervé

\ɛʁ.ve\

/\ɛʁ.ve\/ name

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The verdict

“Hervé” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,707
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-herve · Hervé · French

Hervé · rank #6,707 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,707
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH habitué

Nearest frequency peer: habitué (-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 « Hervé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Hervé » 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).

Hervé vs heure
20% similar
Hervé vs hurle
20% similar
Hervé vs horde
20% similar

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

Key facts for Hervé
PropertyValue
HeadwordHervé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ɛʁ.ve\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,707
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hervé »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Hervése place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « habitué » (#6,706), « Instagram » (#6,708), « grade » (#6,705). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « Hervé » est au #6,707. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Hervé (IPA \ɛʁ.ve\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,707 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hervé, with forms such as "ehrvé", "herrvé", and "herve". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "heure", "hurle", "horde", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Hervé, spelled H-E-R-V-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Barbarians-Tonga : la compo des Baa-Baas avec Coly titulaire et Hervé remplaçant.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ehrvé
  • herrvé
  • herve
  • hervvé
  • herév
  • hevré
  • hhervé
  • hrevé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hervé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ehrvé2herrvé1herve1hervvé1herév2hevré2hhervé1hrevé2
Edit distance from "Hervé"

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 "Hervé"?
"Hervé" is spelled H-E-R-V-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛʁ.ve\.
What does "Hervé" mean?
As a proper noun, "Hervé" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Hervé"?
"Hervé" is commonly confused with "heure", "hurle", "horde". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Hervé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Hervé" is \ɛʁ.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Hervé" come from?
"Hervé" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

grade#6,705frigo#6,703laine#6,711Chili#6,689

Similar misspelling depth

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

Louvre8 variantsdomine8 variantsNicole8 variantsblocs8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list