proverbe
\pʁɔ.vɛʁb\
The verdict
“proverbe” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,334. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,334
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de sentence, de maxime exprimée en peu de mots et devenue d’usage commun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-proverbe · proverbe · French
proverbe · rank #14,334 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,334
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH propager
Nearest frequency peer: propager (-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 « proverbe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- proclamé
proclamé
85,670 corpus weight
- profondeurs
profondeurs
85,669 corpus weight
- propager
propager
85,668 corpus weight
- proverbe
proverbe
85,667 corpus weight
- provinciales
provinciales
85,666 corpus weight
- prédateurs
prédateurs
85,665 corpus weight
What this shows « proverbe » 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 | proverbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁɔ.vɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « proverbe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around proverbe (IPA \pʁɔ.vɛʁb\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,334 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for proverbe, with forms such as "porverbe", "pproverbe", and "proevrbe". 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, "proverbes", "proféré", "Provence", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is proverbe, spelled P-R-O-V-E-R-B-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de sentence, de maxime exprimée en peu de mots et devenue d’usage commun.
- 2Livre qui contient ces maximes
- 3Sorte de petite comédie qui se joue en société et qui met en action un proverbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proverbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mes enfants, les proverbes que vous voyez au mur de cette classe correspondaient peut-être jadis à une réalité disparue. … si bien qu'à notre époque, le mépris des proverbes c'est le commencement de la fortune...
Ainsi, on peut tirer deux conclusions du proverbe : « mieux vaut laisser son enfant morveux que lui arracher le nez » : la saleté du nez chez un enfant n'est pas très réprouvable ; donc, deuxième conclusion, on peut généraliser cette évidence à d'autres domaines de l'éducation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porverbe
- pproverbe
- proevrbe
- provebre
- proverbbe
- provereb
- proverrbe
- provrebe
- provverbe
- prroverbe
- prvoerbe
- rpoverbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of proverbe - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).