pavées
\pa.ve\
The verdict
“pavées” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,952. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,952
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de pavé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavees · pavées · French
pavées · rank #41,952 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,952
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passionnants
Nearest frequency peer: passionnants (-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 « pavées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paradigmes
paradigmes
58,052 corpus weight
- passable
passable
58,051 corpus weight
- passionnants
passionnants
58,050 corpus weight
- pavées
pavées
58,049 corpus weight
- Paxton
Paxton
58,048 corpus weight
- Peltier
Peltier
58,047 corpus weight
What this shows « pavées » 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 | pavées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pavées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pavées (IPA \pa.ve\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,952 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de pavé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pavées, with forms such as "apvées", "pavees", and "paveés". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "payés", "payée", "pavés", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pavées, spelled P-A-V-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de pavé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apvées
- pavees
- paveés
- pavvées
- pavéess
- pavése
- paéves
- ppavées
- pvaées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pavées - 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 "pavées", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).