Neville
The verdict
“Neville” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,542
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-neville · Neville · French
Neville · rank #27,542 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,542
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH neurosciences
Nearest frequency peer: neurosciences (-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 « Neville »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Nemours
Nemours
72,462 corpus weight
- neurologique
neurologique
72,461 corpus weight
- neuroscienc…
neurosciences
72,460 corpus weight
- Neville
Neville
72,459 corpus weight
- Newport
Newport
72,458 corpus weight
- Nguyen
Nguyen
72,457 corpus weight
What this shows « Neville » 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 | Neville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Neville »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Neville, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,542 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Neville, with forms such as "enville", "neivlle", and "nevile". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "nouille", "nivelle", "Nelle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Neville, spelled N-E-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Neville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neville Chamberlain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enville
- neivlle
- nevile
- nevilel
- nevlile
- nevville
- nneville
- nveille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Neville - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).