nivelle
\ni.vɛl\
The verdict
“nivelle” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,319. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,319
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre nom du niveau à bulle d’air. Notamment quand il s’agit d’un dispositif servant à régler à l’horizontal un autre appareil de mesure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nivelle · nivelle · French
nivelle · rank #46,319 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,319
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noient
Nearest frequency peer: noient (+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 « nivelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mésentente
mésentente
53,687 corpus weight
- nay
nay
53,685 corpus weight
- nettoyés
nettoyés
53,684 corpus weight
- nivelle
nivelle
53,682 corpus weight
- noient
noient
53,681 corpus weight
- Nostradamus
Nostradamus
53,680 corpus weight
What this shows « nivelle » 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 | nivelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ni.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nivelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around nivelle (IPA \ni.vɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,319 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for nivelle, with forms such as "invelle", "nievlle", and "nivele". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Noëlle", "nouvelle", "nivelles", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is nivelle, spelled N-I-V-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Autre nom du niveau à bulle d’air. Notamment quand il s’agit d’un dispositif servant à régler à l’horizontal un autre appareil de mesure.
- 2Mire de repérage de niveau que l’on plante dans le sol sur les chantiers de terrassement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nivelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant de me taire une bonne fois pour toutes, je me tourne vers Ubac et je lui dis qu’il est ma nivelle, j’aime bien lui dire ça, ma nivelle ; les parades et les illusions donnant cette gîte que seul on tarde à percevoir et que l’on peine à rétablir, dans son regard, je sais si je suis à l’équilibre ou si je penche, avoir à disposition cet incorruptible r…
La nivelle est réglée de façon que l’axe optique soit horizontal quand la bulle est calée,...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- invelle
- nievlle
- nivele
- nivelel
- nivlele
- nivvelle
- nnivelle
- nvielle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nivelle - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).