Neville

name

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#27,542

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

Neville is aFrenchname. It means: Prénom masculin. Often confused with nouille and nivelle.

Key facts for Neville
PropertyValue
HeadwordNeville
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,542
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Neville in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Neville is 7 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #27,542 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Prénom masculin.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Neville, with forms such as "enville", "neivlle", and "nevile". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nouille", "nivelle", "Nelle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Neville, spelled N-E-V-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: enville,neivlle,nevile,nevilel,nevlile,nevville,nneville,nveille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Neville

Misspelling Variants of "Neville"

enville7neivlle7nevile6nevilel7nevlile7nevville8nneville8nveille7
Misspelling Variants of "Neville"

Frequency rank: #27,542 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Neville"?
"Neville" is spelled N-E-V-I-L-L-E.
What does "Neville" mean?
As a name, "Neville" means: Prénom masculin.
What words are commonly confused with "Neville"?
"Neville" is commonly confused with "nouille", "nivelle", "Nelle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Neville" come from?
"Neville" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter N in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.