polyvalent
\pɔ.li.va.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“polyvalent” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,373. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,373
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut servir à plusieurs choses, qui a donc plusieurs capacités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polyvalent · polyvalent · French
polyvalent · rank #19,373 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,373
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pollen
Nearest frequency peer: pollen (-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 « polyvalent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pluralité
pluralité
80,631 corpus weight
- Pogba
Pogba
80,630 corpus weight
- pollen
pollen
80,629 corpus weight
- polyvalent
polyvalent
80,628 corpus weight
- portage
portage
80,627 corpus weight
- prestataire
prestataire
80,626 corpus weight
What this shows « polyvalent » 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 | polyvalent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.li.va.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « polyvalent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around polyvalent (IPA \pɔ.li.va.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,373 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui peut servir à plusieurs choses, qui a donc plusieurs capacités.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for polyvalent, with forms such as "oplyvalent", "ployvalent", and "pollyvalent". 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, "polyvalente", "polyvalents", "polyvalence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is polyvalent, spelled P-O-L-Y-V-A-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui peut servir à plusieurs choses, qui a donc plusieurs capacités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polyvalent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un lycée polyvalent.
Un employé polyvalent.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplyvalent
- ployvalent
- pollyvalent
- polvyalent
- polyavlent
- polyvaelnt
- polyvalennt
- polyvalentt
- polyvaletn
- polyvallent
- polyvalnet
- polyvlaent
- polyvvalent
- polyyvalent
- poylvalent
- ppolyvalent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polyvalent - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).