nerval
\nɛʁ.val\
The verdict
“nerval” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,683
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux nerfs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nerval · nerval · French
nerval · rank #48,683 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,683
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nazionale
Nearest frequency peer: nazionale (-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 « nerval »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- napa
napa
51,321 corpus weight
- narquois
narquois
51,320 corpus weight
- nazionale
nazionale
51,319 corpus weight
- nerval
nerval
51,318 corpus weight
- nini
nini
51,316 corpus weight
- niveler
niveler
51,315 corpus weight
What this shows « nerval » 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 | nerval |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɛʁ.val\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nerval »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around nerval (IPA \nɛʁ.val\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,683 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for nerval, with forms such as "enrval", "neravl", and "nerrval". 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, "normal", "Népal", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is nerval, spelled N-E-R-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux nerfs.
- 2Qui est bon pour les nerfs.
- 3baume nerval : Baume contenant du beurre de muscade, de l'essence de romarin et de girofle ainsi que du camphre, il était utilisé en friction contre les rhumatismes.
- 4Relatif aux nervures des plantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nerval appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Remèdes nervaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enrval
- neravl
- nerrval
- nervall
- nervla
- nervval
- nevral
- nnerval
- nreval
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nerval - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).