ouvrent
\uvʁ\
The verdict
“ouvrent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,724
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de ouvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouvrent · ouvrent · French
ouvrent · rank #6,724 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,724
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ouvertement
Nearest frequency peer: ouvertement (-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 « ouvrent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ongles
ongles
93,280 corpus weight
- opposant
opposant
93,279 corpus weight
- ouvertement
ouvertement
93,278 corpus weight
- ouvrent
ouvrent
93,277 corpus weight
- pa
pa
93,276 corpus weight
- pan
pan
93,275 corpus weight
What this shows « ouvrent » 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 | ouvrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \uvʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ouvrent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ouvrent (IPA \uvʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,724 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ouvrent, with forms such as "ourvent", "ouvernt", and "ouvrennt". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ouvrez", "ouvres", "ouvrons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ouvrent, spelled O-U-V-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de ouvrir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de ouvrir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouvrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le récit du maître, la « marmotte » et, plus tard, le commissaire ouvrent également les yeux de la victime.
Des fenêtres, là-haut, s’ouvrent, creuses et noires comme des orbites béantes dans le crâne d’un squelette.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ourvent
- ouvernt
- ouvrennt
- ouvrentt
- ouvretn
- ouvrnet
- ouvrrent
- ouvvrent
- ovurent
- uovrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ouvrent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ouvrent", 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).