invisible
\ɛ̃.vi.zibl\
The verdict
“invisible” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,879. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,879
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qu’on ne peut voir, qui échappe à la vue par sa nature, par sa petitesse, par sa position, ou seulement à cause de la distance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-invisible · invisible · French
invisible · rank #5,879 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,879
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH inventaire
Nearest frequency peer: inventaire (-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 « invisible »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- injuste
injuste
94,125 corpus weight
- inventaire
inventaire
94,123 corpus weight
- invisible
invisible
94,122 corpus weight
- Jason
Jason
94,121 corpus weight
- Jonathan
Jonathan
94,120 corpus weight
- jouait
jouait
94,119 corpus weight
What this shows « invisible » 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 | invisible |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.vi.zibl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « invisible »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around invisible (IPA \ɛ̃.vi.zibl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,879 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for invisible, with forms such as "inivsible", "innvisible", and "inviisble". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "invivable", "invisibles", "illisible", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is invisible, spelled I-N-V-I-S-I-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qu’on ne peut voir, qui échappe à la vue par sa nature, par sa petitesse, par sa position, ou seulement à cause de la distance.
- 2Qui ne se laisse pas voir, qui se cache, ou que l’on ne saurait trouver.
- 3Dont on ne parle pas ; qui n’est pas connu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how invisible appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous citerons les solutions aqueuses étendues de chlorure de cobalt, d’acétate ou de nitrate de cobalt, mêlées de 1/4 de sel marin; elles donnent une encre sympathique avec laquelle l'écriture, invisible sur le papier, apparaît en bleu par une légère application de la chaleur, puis disparaît ensuite par degrés, à mesure que le chlorure de cobalt reprend d…
Le duc, […], atteignit enfin un escalier en spirale pratiqué dans l’épaisseur d’un mur et qui s’ouvrait par une porte secrète et invisible dans l’antichambre de l’appartement de Marguerite.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inivsible
- innvisible
- inviisble
- invisbile
- invisibble
- invisibel
- invisiblle
- invisilbe
- invissible
- invsiible
- invvisible
- ivnisible
- nivisible
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of invisible - 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 "invisible", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).