preuves
\pʁœv\
The verdict
“preuves” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,540. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,540
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de preuve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-preuves · preuves · French
preuves · rank #2,540 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,540
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prenez
Nearest frequency peer: prenez (-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 « preuves »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- portable
portable
97,464 corpus weight
- portrait
portrait
97,463 corpus weight
- prenez
prenez
97,462 corpus weight
- preuves
preuves
97,461 corpus weight
- rouges
rouges
97,460 corpus weight
- routes
routes
97,459 corpus weight
What this shows « preuves » 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 | preuves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁœv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « preuves »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around preuves (IPA \pʁœv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,540 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de preuve.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for preuves, with forms such as "peruves", "ppreuves", and "preuevs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "privés", "prouve", "prévus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is preuves, spelled P-R-E-U-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de preuve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how preuves appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’audience étant poursuivie sur un simple acte, de deux choses l’une : ou il n’y a pas de reproches, et dans ce cas les parties, déposant leurs conclusions au fond, cherchent à tirer de l’enquête les preuves ou contre-preuves qu’elle peut fournir ; alors l’affaire marche au fond, comme si l’enquête n'eût pas eu lieu, sauf qu’on invoque les dépositions.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- peruves
- ppreuves
- preuevs
- preuvess
- preuvse
- preuvves
- prevues
- prreuves
- prueves
- rpeuves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of preuves - 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 "preuves", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).