novice
\nɔ.vis\
The verdict
“novice” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,612
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est peu exercé, peu expérimenté en une activité, un métier, une profession.
Corpus desk
Index FR-novice · novice · French
novice · rank #19,612 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH noie
Nearest frequency peer: noie (-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 « novice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- natures
natures
80,392 corpus weight
- neveux
neveux
80,391 corpus weight
- noie
noie
80,390 corpus weight
- novice
novice
80,389 corpus weight
- négativement
négativement
80,388 corpus weight
- occulte
occulte
80,387 corpus weight
What this shows « novice » 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 | novice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \nɔ.vis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « novice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around novice (IPA \nɔ.vis\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,612 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for novice, with forms such as "nnovice", "noivce", and "novcie". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "novices", "nice", "noie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is novice, spelled N-O-V-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est peu exercé, peu expérimenté en une activité, un métier, une profession.
- 2Personne qui n’a point encore la connaissance du monde.
- 3Se dit des choses prises pour la personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how novice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois remontée l’avenue de Paris, la commune avait installé d’un côté une vaste aire de jeux pour les enfants, regroupant les classiques balançoires, tape-fesses et structures décoratives, ainsi qu’un pumptrack pouvant accueillir divers amateurs, plus ou moins novices.
Sur le port, les amateurs, des plus novices aux plus aguerris pourront se balader le long des mythiques tonneaux exposés en plein air et découvrir l’art de l’assemblage et du dodinage, pour comprendre comment est façonné ce célèbre vermouth !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnovice
- noivce
- novcie
- novicce
- noviec
- novvice
- nvoice
- onvice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of novice - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).