neveu
\nə.vø\
The verdict
“neveu” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,000
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Petit-fils.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neveu · neveu · French
neveu · rank #6,000 · 5 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,000
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nette
Nearest frequency peer: nette (-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 « neveu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lave
lave
94,005 corpus weight
- nerfs
nerfs
94,003 corpus weight
- nette
nette
94,002 corpus weight
- neveu
neveu
94,001 corpus weight
- Not
Not
94,000 corpus weight
- notice
notice
93,999 corpus weight
What this shows « neveu » 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 | neveu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nə.vø\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « neveu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around neveu (IPA \nə.vø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,000 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for neveu, with forms such as "enveu", "neevu", and "nevveu". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "novel", "niveau", "neveux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 neveu, spelled N-E-V-E-U.
Definition
- 1ou Petit-fils.
- 2Descendant.
- 3Héritier d’une tradition spirituelle, littéraire, artistique.
- 4Fils du frère ou de la sœur.
- 5Fils du cousin ou de la cousine.
- 6Conjoint masculin d'un enfant du frère ou de la sœur, ou d'un beau-frère ou d'une belle-sœur (d’une nièce ou d’un neveu).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how neveu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos neveux, nos derniers neveux, nos arrière-neveux.
Et j'espère que nos neveux me sauront gré, non seulement des choses que j'ai ici expliquées, mais aussi de celles que j'ai omises volontairement, afin de leur laisser le plaisir de les inventer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enveu
- neevu
- nevveu
- nneveu
- nveeu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of neveu - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).