navigable
\na.vi.ɡabl\
The verdict
“navigable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,213
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Où l’on peut naviguer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-navigable · navigable · French
navigable · rank #34,213 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,213
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH Nakamura
Nearest frequency peer: Nakamura (-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 « navigable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mêlées
mêlées
65,791 corpus weight
- Nagano
Nagano
65,790 corpus weight
- Nakamura
Nakamura
65,789 corpus weight
- navigable
navigable
65,788 corpus weight
- nommément
nommément
65,786 corpus weight
- Noëlle
Noëlle
65,785 corpus weight
What this shows « navigable » 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 | navigable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \na.vi.ɡabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « navigable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around navigable (IPA \na.vi.ɡabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,213 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Où l’on peut naviguer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for navigable, with forms such as "anvigable", "naivgable", and "navgiable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "navigables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 navigable, spelled N-A-V-I-G-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Où l’on peut naviguer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how navigable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est d'ailleurs impossible de compter pendant les sécheresses sur la totalité du produit alimentaire parce que les riverains de la Bar profitant de ce qu'elle n'est pas considérée comme rivière navigable en amont de la prise d'eau y font de nombreuses saignées pour l'irrigation de leurs prairies ; […].
D'après la chute très-considérable de la Sée dans la commune de Brouains, où les moulins sont entassés en grand nombre dans un court espace, on ne peut pas songer à rendre la Sée navigable plus haut que Chérencé-le-Roussel.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anvigable
- naivgable
- navgiable
- naviagble
- navigabble
- navigabel
- navigablle
- navigalbe
- navigbale
- naviggable
- navvigable
- nnavigable
- nvaigable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of navigable - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).