ives
\iv\
The verdict
“ives” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,977) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,977
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ives · ives · French
ives · rank #47,977 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,977
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irréalistes
Nearest frequency peer: irréalistes (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ives »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- introverti
introverti
52,028 corpus weight
- inversées
inversées
52,027 corpus weight
- IQ
IQ
52,026 corpus weight
- irréalistes
irréalistes
52,025 corpus weight
- ives
ives
52,024 corpus weight
- Jamy
Jamy
52,022 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ives » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \iv\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ives »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ives is neighbouring look-alikes ("IVG", "ivy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \iv\. Frequency #47,977 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de ive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for ives, with forms such as "ievs", "ivess", and "ivse". 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, "IVG", "ivy", "ixe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ives, spelled I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ive.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ievs
- ivess
- ivse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ives - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).