motiver
\mɔ.ti.ve\
The verdict
“motiver” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,747
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apporter de la motivation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-motiver · motiver · French
motiver · rank #10,747 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,747
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Moore
Nearest frequency peer: Moore (-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 « motiver »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Miguel
Miguel
89,257 corpus weight
- milliardaire
milliardaire
89,256 corpus weight
- Moore
Moore
89,255 corpus weight
- motiver
motiver
89,254 corpus weight
- musulmanes
musulmanes
89,253 corpus weight
- Mélanie
Mélanie
89,252 corpus weight
What this shows « motiver » 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 | motiver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɔ.ti.ve\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « motiver »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around motiver (IPA \mɔ.ti.ve\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,747 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for motiver, with forms such as "mmotiver", "moitver", and "motievr". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "motivés", "mutiler", "moutier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is motiver, spelled M-O-T-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Apporter de la motivation.
- 2Provoquer les raisons ou les motifs ; susciter.
- 3Justifier par des motifs.
- 4Servir de motif à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motiver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment motiver les salariés à leur travail ? Cette grave question, […], donnera des ailes à une multitude de fades réformateurs, qui inventeront la rotation des postes, les équipes autonomes, la direction par objectif, les cercles de qualité, les groupes d’expression directe, etc. On prendra notamment pour modèle dans ce domaine « américâneries » et « ja…
Eh bien ! mon bonhomme, qu’y a-t-il donc là ? demanda Blondel après un gros quart d’heure pendant lequel il n’aperçut rien qui motivât cette profonde attention.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotiver
- moitver
- motievr
- motiverr
- motivre
- motivver
- mottiver
- motvier
- mtoiver
- omtiver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motiver - 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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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