rivet
\ʁi.vɛ\
The verdict
“rivet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,473
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de clou dont la pointe est destinée à être abattue et aplatie, de manière à fixer une pièce à une autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rivet · rivet · French
rivet · rank #40,473 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,473
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH risquées
Nearest frequency peer: risquées (-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 « rivet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- riens
riens
59,532 corpus weight
- Rieux
Rieux
59,531 corpus weight
- risquées
risquées
59,529 corpus weight
- rivet
rivet
59,528 corpus weight
- rocks
rocks
59,526 corpus weight
- rompant
rompant
59,525 corpus weight
What this shows « rivet » 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 | rivet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rivet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rivet (IPA \ʁi.vɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,473 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sorte de clou dont la pointe est destinée à être abattue et aplatie, de manière à fixer une pièce à une autre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rivet, with forms such as "irvet", "rievt", and "rivett". 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, "rixe", "rover", "rouet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rivet, spelled R-I-V-E-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de clou dont la pointe est destinée à être abattue et aplatie, de manière à fixer une pièce à une autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rivet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eugène Freyssinet, qui a su faire passer la précontrainte d’une utilisation implicite à un recours explicite, se plaisait à rappeler que c’est en attachant des lianes autour d’un bâton et d’une pierre taillée que l’homme préhistorique a fabriqué une hache ; il ajoutait : « Toute œuvre de l’homme n’existe qu’en vertu de réactions élastiques obtenues par bo…
Suivant la forme de sa tête, le rivet est dit à tête en goutte de suif, à tête sphérique, à tête fraisée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- irvet
- rievt
- rivett
- rivte
- rivvet
- rrivet
- rviet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rivet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rivet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).