improviste
\ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vist\
The verdict
“improviste” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,007. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,007
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot utilisé seulement dans la locution à l’improviste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-improviste · improviste · French
improviste · rank #25,007 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,007
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH improbables
Nearest frequency peer: improbables (-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 « improviste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- IIe
IIe
74,997 corpus weight
- implant
implant
74,996 corpus weight
- improbables
improbables
74,995 corpus weight
- improviste
improviste
74,994 corpus weight
- ina
ina
74,993 corpus weight
- incursion
incursion
74,992 corpus weight
What this shows « improviste » 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 | improviste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « improviste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around improviste (IPA \ɛ̃.pʁɔ.vist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,007 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mot utilisé seulement dans la locution à l’improviste.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for improviste, with forms such as "immproviste", "imporviste", and "impproviste". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "improvise", "improviser", "improvisée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is improviste, spelled I-M-P-R-O-V-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Mot utilisé seulement dans la locution à l’improviste.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immproviste
- imporviste
- impproviste
- improivste
- improviset
- improvisste
- improvistte
- improvitse
- improvsite
- improvviste
- imprroviste
- imprvoiste
- imrpoviste
- ipmroviste
- miproviste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of improviste - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "improviste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).