louvière
\lu.vjɛʁ\
The verdict
“louvière” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,902
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fosse destinée à la capture de loups.
Corpus desk
Index FR-louviere · louvière · French
louvière · rank #38,902 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,902
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH louait
Nearest frequency peer: louait (-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 « louvière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- longuet
longuet
61,102 corpus weight
- Lothaire
Lothaire
61,101 corpus weight
- louait
louait
61,100 corpus weight
- louvière
louvière
61,099 corpus weight
- légistes
légistes
61,098 corpus weight
- légitimation
légitimation
61,097 corpus weight
What this shows « louvière » 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 | louvière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lu.vjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « louvière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around louvière (IPA \lu.vjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,902 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fosse destinée à la capture de loups.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for louvière, with forms such as "llouvière", "louivère", and "louviere". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Louvre", "lumière", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is louvière, spelled L-O-U-V-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fosse destinée à la capture de loups.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how louvière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plusieurs de ces appellatifs sont en rapport avec les techniques de chasse autrefois utilisées. La louvière se rencontre dix-neuf fois. À quoi correspondait ce terme ? La louvière est tout simplement une fosse dans laquelle on prenait les bêtes. Au début du XVIIIᵉ siècle, le duc de Lorraine Léopold ordonna le rétablissement des anciennes louvières, abando…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llouvière
- louivère
- louviere
- louvirèe
- louvièer
- louvièrre
- louvvière
- louvèire
- lovuière
- luovière
- oluvière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of louvière - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).