oeuvre
\œvʁ\
The verdict
“oeuvre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,139
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante par contrainte typographique d’œuvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oeuvre · oeuvre · French
oeuvre · rank #2,139 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,139
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nation
Nearest frequency peer: nation (-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 « oeuvre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- min
min
97,866 corpus weight
- médecins
médecins
97,865 corpus weight
- nation
nation
97,863 corpus weight
- oeuvre
oeuvre
97,862 corpus weight
- PQ
PQ
97,859 corpus weight
- proposé
proposé
97,858 corpus weight
What this shows « oeuvre » 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 | oeuvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \œvʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « oeuvre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around oeuvre (IPA \œvʁ\), atypographic variant. Corpus frequency is #2,139 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante par contrainte typographique d’œuvre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for oeuvre, with forms such as "eouvre", "oeurve", and "oeuver". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ouvre", "outré", "ouvrez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is oeuvre, spelled O-E-U-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Variante par contrainte typographique d’œuvre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eouvre
- oeurve
- oeuver
- oeuvrre
- oeuvvre
- oevure
- ouevre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oeuvre - 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 "oeuvre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).