rêver
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,528
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rêver is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire des rêves en dormant. Pronounced \ʁe.ve\. It ranks #4,528 in French word frequency. Often confused with rive and revu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rêver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ve\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rêver is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,528 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rêver, with forms such as "rever", "rrêver", and "rvêer". 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, "rive", "revu", "ruer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rêver, spelled R-Ê-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire des rêves en dormant.
- 2Être en délire, délirer.
- 3Dire des choses déraisonnables, extravagantes.
- 4Être distrait, laisser aller son imagination sur des choses vagues, sans aucun objet fixe et certain.
- 5Laisser aller librement son imagination, ses pensées.
- 6Se réfugier dans ses souvenirs, dans son fantasme, dans son imagination, dans ses projets.
- 7Espérer, désirer.
- 8Penser, méditer profondément sur quelque chose.
- 9S’absorber dans un désir.
- 10S’imaginer être.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rever,rrêver,rvêer,rêevr,rêverr,rêvre,rêvver,êrver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rêver
Misspelling Variants of "rêver"
Frequency rank: #4,528 in French
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