hivernal
\i.vɛʁ.nal\
The verdict
“hivernal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,836
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’hiver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hivernal · hivernal · French
hivernal · rank #27,836 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,836
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hegel
Nearest frequency peer: Hegel (-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 « hivernal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- harmonique
harmonique
72,167 corpus weight
- Hegel
Hegel
72,166 corpus weight
- hivernal
hivernal
72,165 corpus weight
- holiday
holiday
72,164 corpus weight
- homosexuell…
homosexuelles
72,163 corpus weight
- homéopathie
homéopathie
72,162 corpus weight
What this shows « hivernal » 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 | hivernal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.vɛʁ.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hivernal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around hivernal (IPA \i.vɛʁ.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,836 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif à l’hiver.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hivernal, with forms such as "hhivernal", "hievrnal", and "hivenral". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "hivernale", "hivernales", "hivernage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is hivernal, spelled H-I-V-E-R-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’hiver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hivernal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans toute la vallée moyenne on observe généralement deux périodes de grande pluviosité : l’une hivernale (novembre-décembre), l’autre vernale (février-avril) […]
La coordonnatrice des bénévoles chez Accueil et Intégration Bas-Saint-Laurent, Colette Schoonbroodt, lui a fourni ses habits hivernaux, un bien nécessaire pour survivre aux rudes hivers de la région.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhivernal
- hievrnal
- hivenral
- hiveranl
- hivernall
- hivernla
- hivernnal
- hiverrnal
- hivrenal
- hivvernal
- hviernal
- ihvernal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hivernal - 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 "hivernal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).