pourvoi
\puʁ.vwa\
The verdict
“pourvoi” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,479
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recours à une juridiction supérieure, contre un arrêt rendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourvoi · pourvoi · French
pourvoi · rank #26,479 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,479
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pourrit
Nearest frequency peer: pourrit (-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 « pourvoi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ponctué
ponctué
73,525 corpus weight
- posais
posais
73,524 corpus weight
- pourrit
pourrit
73,523 corpus weight
- pourvoi
pourvoi
73,522 corpus weight
- poussa
poussa
73,521 corpus weight
- prendrez
prendrez
73,520 corpus weight
What this shows « pourvoi » 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 | pourvoi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puʁ.vwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourvoi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pourvoi (IPA \puʁ.vwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,479 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourvoi, with forms such as "opurvoi", "poruvoi", and "pourovi". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "pourvu", "pouvoir", "pourvus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pourvoi, spelled P-O-U-R-V-O-I.
Definition
- 1Recours à une juridiction supérieure, contre un arrêt rendu.
- 2Action par laquelle on attaque devant la cour de cassation un jugement rendu en dernier ressort, pour défaut de forme ou pour infraction à la loi.
- 3Recours à d’autres tribunaux, à d’autres autorités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourvoi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La cour de cassation ayant rejeté le pourvoi d’Étienne Baud, de Masméjan , commune de Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarez (Ardèche), condamné à la peine capitale par arrêt de la cour d'assises de la Lozère du 4 juin dernier, pour crime d'homicide volontaire avec préméditation de guet-à-pens, ce malheureux, […], a été exécuté le 13 sur la place d’Angiran à Mende.
— Et c’est irrévocable ? murmure péniblement M. Hyacinthe, avec la mine du condamné à mort qui s’inquiète de son pourvoi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurvoi
- poruvoi
- pourovi
- pourrvoi
- pourvio
- pourvvoi
- pouvroi
- ppourvoi
- puorvoi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourvoi - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).