livres
\livʁ\
The verdict
“livres” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #903
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de livre (ouvrage qu’on lit).
Corpus desk
Index FR-livres · livres · French
livres · rank #903 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #903
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH instant
Nearest frequency peer: instant (-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 « livres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- G
G
99,101 corpus weight
- instant
instant
99,099 corpus weight
- livres
livres
99,098 corpus weight
- majorité
majorité
99,097 corpus weight
- modèle
modèle
99,096 corpus weight
- obtenir
obtenir
99,095 corpus weight
What this shows « livres » 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 | livres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \livʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « livres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around livres (IPA \livʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #903 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de livre (ouvrage qu’on lit).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for livres, with forms such as "ilvres", "lirves", and "livers". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Livry", "livret", "livreur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is livres, spelled L-I-V-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de livre (ouvrage qu’on lit).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how livres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Résultat d’une collaboration des acteurs du milieu du livre québécois (maisons d’édition, librairies, réseaux de distribution et bibliothèques publiques), la plateforme PRETNUMERIQUECA permet aux bibliothèques publiques d’acquérir des livres numériques et de les rendre disponibles à leurs usagers par l’entremise de prêts chronodégradables (c’est-à-dire qu…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilvres
- lirves
- livers
- livress
- livrres
- livrse
- livvres
- llivres
- lvires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of livres - 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 "livres", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).