rave
\ʁav\
The verdict
“rave” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,506. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,506
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom commun à plusieurs espèces de plantes potagères cultivées pour leur racine — (voir hyponymes ci-dessous).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rave · rave · French
rave · rank #29,506 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,506
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rassemblée
Nearest frequency peer: rassemblée (-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 « rave »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ralentis
ralentis
70,498 corpus weight
- rappelés
rappelés
70,497 corpus weight
- rassemblée
rassemblée
70,496 corpus weight
- rave
rave
70,495 corpus weight
- raviver
raviver
70,494 corpus weight
- rayonne
rayonne
70,493 corpus weight
What this shows « rave » 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 | rave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁav\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rave »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around rave (IPA \ʁav\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,506 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rave, with forms such as "arve", "raev", and "ravve". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "RV", "rue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rave, spelled R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Nom commun à plusieurs espèces de plantes potagères cultivées pour leur racine — (voir hyponymes ci-dessous).
- 2Racine comestible de cette plante.
- 3Lampe de mineur à flamme nue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les raves sont le fond du dîner qu’on m’offre quand je vais chez la béate ; on m’en donne une crue et une cuite. Je racle la crue, qui semble mousser sous le couteau, et a sur la langue un goût de noisette et un froid de neige. Je mords avec moins de plaisir dans celle qui est cuite au feu de la chaufferette que la tante tient toujours entre les jambes, e…
On a voulu voir, dans le navet et la rave, des espèces différents, "Brassica napus" et "B. rapa". Cependant la distinction entre la rave et le navet est d'ordre purement pratique et le nom de rave s'applique plus particulièrement aux racines courtes, sphériques, et celui de navet aux racines allongées.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arve
- raev
- ravve
- rrave
- rvae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rave - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).