rivale
\ʁi.val\
The verdict
“rivale” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,806
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme rivale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rivale · rivale · French
rivale · rank #17,806 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,806
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH restau
Nearest frequency peer: restau (-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 « rivale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remette
remette
82,197 corpus weight
- restau
restau
82,196 corpus weight
- rivale
rivale
82,195 corpus weight
- ruptures
ruptures
82,194 corpus weight
- rédemption
rédemption
82,193 corpus weight
- réglementat…
réglementations
82,192 corpus weight
What this shows « rivale » 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 | rivale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.val\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rivale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rivale (IPA \ʁi.val\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,806 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme rivale.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rivale, with forms such as "irvale", "riavle", and "rivael". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rive", "royale", "rurale", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rivale, spelled R-I-V-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Femme rivale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rivale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une femme d’un certain âge, qui veut s’attacher à jamais un homme, commence par en diviniser les défauts, afin de rendre impossible toute rivalité ; car une rivale n’est pas de prime abord dans le secret de cette superfine flatterie à laquelle un homme s’habitue assez facilement.
La notaresse était furieuse de ne pas être aussi belle que madame César, car toute femme sait toujours en elle-même à quoi s’en tenir sur la supériorité ou l’infériorité d’une rivale.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irvale
- riavle
- rivael
- rivalle
- rivlae
- rivvale
- rrivale
- rviale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rivale - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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