nirvana
\niʁ.va.na\
The verdict
“nirvana” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,294
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extinction du désir humain, état de béatitude extrême, de libération du samsara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nirvana · nirvana · French
nirvana · rank #23,294 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,294
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH natural
Nearest frequency peer: natural (-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 « nirvana »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Napoli
Napoli
76,710 corpus weight
- Natacha
Natacha
76,709 corpus weight
- natural
natural
76,708 corpus weight
- nirvana
nirvana
76,707 corpus weight
- nonobstant
nonobstant
76,706 corpus weight
- Norbert
Norbert
76,705 corpus weight
What this shows « nirvana » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nirvana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \niʁ.va.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nirvana »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around nirvana (IPA \niʁ.va.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,294 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for nirvana, with forms such as "inrvana", "niravna", and "nirrvana". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 nirvana, spelled N-I-R-V-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Extinction du désir humain, état de béatitude extrême, de libération du samsara.
- 2Paradis.
- 3Le sommet recherché, l’oméga.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nirvana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux farouches capitaines de Gengis-Khan succédèrent presque subitement de contemplatifs lamas, et l’ambition des conquêtes fut remplacée par celle d’atteindre à la perfection par l’anéantissement extatique (nirvana), et d’arriver au rivage opposé, c’est-à-dire, de rentrer dans le sein de l’ame universelle.
Lorsque je serai au Nirvana, ici même sera fondée une ville royale ; à la fin de sa vie, ce vieillard montera au séjour des dieux pour renaître fils du roi d’Entapatta.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inrvana
- niravna
- nirrvana
- nirvaan
- nirvanna
- nirvnaa
- nirvvana
- nivrana
- nnirvana
- nrivana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nirvana - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).
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