lover
\lɔ.ve\
The verdict
“lover” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,057
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enrouler en spirale (un câble, un cordage, un bout ou une haussière).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lover · lover · French
lover · rank #32,057 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,057
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loutre
Nearest frequency peer: loutre (-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 « lover »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- loose
loose
67,947 corpus weight
- lori
lori
67,946 corpus weight
- loutre
loutre
67,945 corpus weight
- lover
lover
67,944 corpus weight
- lugubre
lugubre
67,943 corpus weight
- Lukas
Lukas
67,942 corpus weight
What this shows « lover » 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 | lover |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɔ.ve\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lover »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lover (IPA \lɔ.ve\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,057 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lover, with forms such as "llover", "loevr", and "loverr". 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, "loyer", "lower", "loyers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lover, spelled L-O-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enrouler en spirale (un câble, un cordage, un bout ou une haussière).
- 2S’enrouler sur lui-même, en parlant d’un serpent.
- 3Sembler enroulé sur soi-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lover appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La manœuvre terminée, les matelots ont lové les cordages pour pouvoir les ranger en attendant une future utilisation.
Il y avait des charcuteries, temples aux mille colonnes, aux plafonds surchargés de jambons et de saucisses, antres sombres où s’entassaient des montagnes de rillettes, des boudins lovés comme des cordages, des barils de choucroute, d’olives violacées, d’anchois au sel, de concombres doux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llover
- loevr
- loverr
- lovre
- lovver
- lvoer
- olver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lover - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).