rivales
\ʁi.val\
The verdict
“rivales” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,683
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de rival.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rivales · rivales · French
rivales · rank #22,683 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,683
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH respectif
Nearest frequency peer: respectif (-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 « rivales »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- repentir
repentir
77,321 corpus weight
- repoussant
repoussant
77,320 corpus weight
- respectif
respectif
77,319 corpus weight
- rivales
rivales
77,318 corpus weight
- romano
romano
77,317 corpus weight
- roubles
roubles
77,316 corpus weight
What this shows « rivales » 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 | rivales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁi.val\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rivales »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around rivales (IPA \ʁi.val\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,683 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de rival.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for rivales, with forms such as "irvales", "riavles", and "rivaels". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "rivés", "rurales", "royales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rivales, spelled R-I-V-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de rival.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rivales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La réputation dont jouissait la maison Bauer avait naturellement excité la jalousie de quelques maisons rivales ; une d’entre elles s’avisa de vouloir désarmorier l’enseigne des Trois-Etoiles-d’Or, et grâce à l’influence de plusieurs personnages assez haut placés, le patron de Rose Himmel allait se voir dépossédé de la fourniture de la cour, ce qui eût ét…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irvales
- riavles
- rivaels
- rivaless
- rivalles
- rivalse
- rivlaes
- rivvales
- rrivales
- rviales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rivales - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).