polyvalence
\pɔ.li.va.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“polyvalence” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,914. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est polyvalent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polyvalence · polyvalence · French
polyvalence · rank #29,914 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,914
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polymère
Nearest frequency peer: polymère (-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 « polyvalence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- podcasts
podcasts
70,090 corpus weight
- poisons
poisons
70,089 corpus weight
- polymère
polymère
70,088 corpus weight
- polyvalence
polyvalence
70,087 corpus weight
- pommier
pommier
70,086 corpus weight
- pompon
pompon
70,085 corpus weight
What this shows « polyvalence » 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 | polyvalence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.va.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « polyvalence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around polyvalence (IPA \pɔ.li.va.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,914 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est polyvalent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for polyvalence, with forms such as "oplyvalence", "ployvalence", and "pollyvalence". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "polyvalent", "polyvalente", "polyvalents", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is polyvalence, spelled P-O-L-Y-V-A-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est polyvalent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polyvalence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le CNRS, par le fait qu'il embrasse à la fois toutes les formes de l'activité scientifique et qu'il se préoccupe également des deux aspects, fondamental et appliqué, de la recherche, reste l'organisme de création scientifique présentant au maximum, en France, le caractère de polyvalence
Galtier devrait donner du temps de jeu à la dernière recrue, Nordi Mukiele (ex-Leipzig), qui pourrait rentrer comme piston droit ou défenseur central puisqu’il a été choisi pour sa polyvalence.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplyvalence
- ployvalence
- pollyvalence
- polvyalence
- polyavlence
- polyvaelnce
- polyvalecne
- polyvalencce
- polyvalenec
- polyvalennce
- polyvallence
- polyvalnece
- polyvlaence
- polyvvalence
- polyyvalence
- poylvalence
- ppolyvalence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polyvalence - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).