navires
\na.viʁ\
The verdict
“navires” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,945
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-navires · navires · French
navires · rank #3,945 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,945
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nomination
Nearest frequency peer: nomination (+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 « navires »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- milan
milan
96,060 corpus weight
- moteurs
moteurs
96,058 corpus weight
- navires
navires
96,056 corpus weight
- nomination
nomination
96,055 corpus weight
- observer
observer
96,054 corpus weight
- occupation
occupation
96,053 corpus weight
What this shows « navires » 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 | navires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \na.viʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « navires »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around navires (IPA \na.viʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,945 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de navire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for navires, with forms such as "anvires", "naivres", and "naviers". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "noires", "nazies", "navrée", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is navires, spelled N-A-V-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de navire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how navires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces bateaux-feux ont été coulés pendant la guerre, deux navires identiques ont été construits pour prendre leur place : BF 6 et BF 7, dont les mouillages ont été renforcés, l’ancre champignon étant remplacée par un corps-mort de 3 ou 4 tonnes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anvires
- naivres
- naviers
- naviress
- navirres
- navirse
- navries
- navvires
- nnavires
- nvaires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of navires - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "navires", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).