ogives
\ɔ.ʒiv\
The verdict
“ogives” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,158
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de ogif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ogives · ogives · French
ogives · rank #31,158 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,158
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occulter
Nearest frequency peer: occulter (-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 « ogives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ob
Ob
68,846 corpus weight
- obsolescence
obsolescence
68,845 corpus weight
- occulter
occulter
68,844 corpus weight
- ogives
ogives
68,843 corpus weight
- opaques
opaques
68,842 corpus weight
- optimisé
optimisé
68,841 corpus weight
What this shows « ogives » 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 | ogives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɔ.ʒiv\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ogives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ogives (IPA \ɔ.ʒiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,158 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de ogif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ogives, with forms such as "goives", "oggives", and "ogievs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "oies", "olive", "ogres", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ogives, spelled O-G-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de ogif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- goives
- oggives
- ogievs
- ogivess
- ogivse
- ogivves
- ogvies
- oigves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ogives - 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
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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).