lave
\lav\
The verdict
“lave” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,996. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,996
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - , Roche en fusion rejetée par un volcan en éruption.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lave · lave · French
lave · rank #5,996 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,996
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH japonaise
Nearest frequency peer: japonaise (-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 « lave »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- intégralité
intégralité
94,008 corpus weight
- irai
irai
94,007 corpus weight
- japonaise
japonaise
94,006 corpus weight
- lave
lave
94,005 corpus weight
- nerfs
nerfs
94,003 corpus weight
- nette
nette
94,002 corpus weight
What this shows « lave » 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 | lave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lav\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lave »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lave (IPA \lav\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,996 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lave, with forms such as "alve", "laev", and "lavve". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "le", "lv", "Lee", 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 lave, spelled L-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1, Roche en fusion rejetée par un volcan en éruption.
- 2Cette roche après refroidissement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faut-il étudier l'homme assagi, endormi sous la cendre, — ou, comme fit Pline l'Ancien pour le Vésuve, s'approcher de lui dans son jeune temps, alors qu'il jette sa lave et son feu ?
Des flots, des torrents, des coulées de lave.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alve
- laev
- lavve
- llave
- lvae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lave - 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 "lave", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).