pouvez
\pu.ve\
The verdict
“pouvez” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #532
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de pouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouvez · pouvez · French
pouvez · rank #532 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #532
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH octobre
Nearest frequency peer: octobre (-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 « pouvez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- laquelle
laquelle
99,472 corpus weight
- nouveaux
nouveaux
99,471 corpus weight
- octobre
octobre
99,470 corpus weight
- pouvez
pouvez
99,469 corpus weight
- siècle
siècle
99,468 corpus weight
- sortir
sortir
99,467 corpus weight
What this shows « pouvez » 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 | pouvez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.ve\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouvez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pouvez (IPA \pu.ve\), averb. Corpus frequency is #532 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de pouvoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pouvez, with forms such as "opuvez", "pouevz", and "pouvezz". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "prouve", "prouver", "pouviez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pouvez, spelled P-O-U-V-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de pouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pouvez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous pouvez alléguer que mon peu de fortune autant que mes goûts m’interdisent de porter des bagatelles qui ne conviennent qu’à des reines ou à des courtisanes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opuvez
- pouevz
- pouvezz
- pouvvez
- pouvze
- povuez
- ppouvez
- puovez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pouvez - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "pouvez", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).