mauve
\mov\
The verdict
“mauve” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,618
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De la couleur de la fleur du même nom, violet pâle. #D473D4
Corpus desk
Index FR-mauve · mauve · French
mauve · rank #22,618 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,618
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matricule
Nearest frequency peer: matricule (-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 « mauve »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mart
mart
77,386 corpus weight
- masculines
masculines
77,385 corpus weight
- matricule
matricule
77,384 corpus weight
- mauve
mauve
77,383 corpus weight
- migratoires
migratoires
77,382 corpus weight
- Mongolie
Mongolie
77,380 corpus weight
What this shows « mauve » 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 | mauve |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \mov\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mauve »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around mauve (IPA \mov\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,618 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "De la couleur de la fleur du même nom, violet pâle. #D473D4".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mauve, with forms such as "amuve", "mauev", and "mauvve". 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, "mue", "maux", "muse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mauve, spelled M-A-U-V-E.
Definition
- 1De la couleur de la fleur du même nom, violet pâle. #D473D4
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mauve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n'est pas permis, excepté sur le théâtre, d'avoir l'air aussi pittoresque que vous, avec vos flanelles blanches, votre chemise mauve et votre cravate violet foncé ! Si j'étais votre grand-mère, je vous enverrais changer de costume.
La lumière d'une vieille lampe donnait sur son slip mauve et mou ; elle éclairait, au haut des cuisses, ces ramures pâles et chancelantes dont m'avait séduit le tracé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amuve
- mauev
- mauvve
- mavue
- mmauve
- muave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mauve - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).