mauvaise
\mɔ.vɛz\
The verdict
“mauvaise” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,033
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de mauvais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauvaise · mauvaise · French
mauvaise · rank #1,033 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lundi
Nearest frequency peer: lundi (-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 « mauvaise »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- km
km
98,971 corpus weight
- large
large
98,970 corpus weight
- lundi
lundi
98,969 corpus weight
- mauvaise
mauvaise
98,968 corpus weight
- membre
membre
98,967 corpus weight
- ministère
ministère
98,966 corpus weight
What this shows « mauvaise » 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 | mauvaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mɔ.vɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mauvaise »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mauvaise (IPA \mɔ.vɛz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,033 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de mauvais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mauvaise, with forms such as "amuvaise", "mauavise", and "mauvaies". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "mauvaises", "mauvais", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mauvaise, spelled M-A-U-V-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de mauvais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mauvaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Face aux tourmentes, aux vents d’Ouest venus du large, soutenue par les lierres géants qui se sont agriffés à ses millénaires murailles, que leurs trois mètres d’épaisseur ont accueillis et qui la font désormais éternelle, on se la figure un de ses farouches veilleurs des temps passés, gardiens du pays qui les entoure et prête à donner l’alarme si quelque…
Nous croyons que la plus grande partie des maux qui affligent les hommes découle de la mauvaise organisation sociale ; et que les hommes, par leur volonté et leur savoir, peuvent les faire disparaître.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amuvaise
- mauavise
- mauvaies
- mauvaisse
- mauvasie
- mauviase
- mauvvaise
- mavuaise
- mmauvaise
- muavaise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mauvaise - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).