Louvre
\luvʁ\
The verdict
“Louvre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,713
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Palais royal de Paris, devenu musée national.
Corpus desk
Index FR-louvre · Louvre · French
Louvre · rank #6,713 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,713
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lisa
Nearest frequency peer: Lisa (-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 « Louvre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jay
jay
93,291 corpus weight
- laine
laine
93,290 corpus weight
- Lisa
Lisa
93,289 corpus weight
- Louvre
Louvre
93,288 corpus weight
- manuscrit
manuscrit
93,287 corpus weight
- mettons
mettons
93,286 corpus weight
What this shows « Louvre » 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 | Louvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \luvʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Louvre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Louvre (IPA \luvʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,713 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Louvre, with forms such as "llouvre", "lourve", and "louver". 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, "love", "lure", "Lozère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Louvre, spelled L-O-U-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Palais royal de Paris, devenu musée national.
- 2Premier arrondissement de Paris.
- 3Quelque grande exposition de peintures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Louvre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lundi, dix-huitième jour du mois d’août 1572, il y avait grande fête au Louvre. Les fenêtres de la vieille demeure royale, ordinairement si sombres, étaient ardemment éclairées.
Après tout, vous avez raison, pourquoi n’irait-on pas au Louvre, surtout par les jours froids, comme il en fait un aujourd’hui ? Les salles y sont spacieuses, chauffées. Et puis il y a les gens qu’on y rencontre. De belles Londoniennes, d’abord, en étoffes bourrues, avec des gants amples, des souliers ronds — flanquées de leurs tristes époux. Et des Allem…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llouvre
- lourve
- louver
- louvrre
- louvvre
- lovure
- luovre
- oluvre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Louvre - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).