niveler
\ni.və.le\
The verdict
“niveler” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,686. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,686
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre un plan uni et horizontal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-niveler · niveler · French
niveler · rank #48,686 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,686
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH nini
Nearest frequency peer: nini (-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 « niveler »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- nerval
nerval
51,318 corpus weight
- nini
nini
51,316 corpus weight
- niveler
niveler
51,315 corpus weight
- Nivernais
Nivernais
51,314 corpus weight
- noircir
noircir
51,313 corpus weight
- nominatives
nominatives
51,312 corpus weight
What this shows « niveler » 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 | niveler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ni.və.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « niveler »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around niveler (IPA \ni.və.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,686 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for niveler, with forms such as "inveler", "nievler", and "niveelr". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nivelle", "nivelles", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is niveler, spelled N-I-V-E-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre un plan uni et horizontal.
- 2Mesurer avec le niveau, au niveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how niveler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand les pieds des promeneurs eurent usé le tapis d’herbe, et que la terre battue fut devenue grise et dure, l’ancien cimetière eut quelque ressemblance avec une place publique mal nivelée.
Le grand Lebrac l’avait commencée lui-même en nivelant la neige avec ses sabots sans clous et tout plats.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inveler
- nievler
- niveelr
- nivelerr
- niveller
- nivelre
- nivleer
- nivveler
- nniveler
- nvieler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of niveler - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "niveler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).