rouvrir
\ʁu.vʁiʁ\
The verdict
“rouvrir” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,665
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrir de nouveau, ouvrir ce qui avait été fermé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rouvrir · rouvrir · French
rouvrir · rank #19,665 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,665
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rouille
Nearest frequency peer: rouille (-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 « rouvrir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rocket
rocket
80,339 corpus weight
- Roissy
Roissy
80,338 corpus weight
- rouille
rouille
80,337 corpus weight
- rouvrir
rouvrir
80,336 corpus weight
- RSS
RSS
80,335 corpus weight
- rubriques
rubriques
80,334 corpus weight
What this shows « rouvrir » 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 | rouvrir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.vʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rouvrir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around rouvrir (IPA \ʁu.vʁiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,665 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for rouvrir, with forms such as "oruvrir", "rourvir", and "rouvirr". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "rougir", "rouvre", "recouvrir", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rouvrir, spelled R-O-U-V-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ouvrir de nouveau, ouvrir ce qui avait été fermé.
- 2Redonner entière liberté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rouvrir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hervé les avait vus distinctement tracasser la grille et un grincement de ferrailles lui apprit qu'ils l’avaient fermé à clé, derrière eux, après l’avoir ouverte en arrivant, et qu'ils étaient en train de la rouvrir pour s’en aller.
La question de la fin du permis à vie a été rouverte il y a une dizaine de jours après l’accident de Pauline Déroulède, qui a dû être amputée d’une jambe, après s’être fait renverser par un conducteur âgé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oruvrir
- rourvir
- rouvirr
- rouvrirr
- rouvrri
- rouvrrir
- rouvvrir
- rovurir
- rrouvrir
- ruovrir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rouvrir - 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
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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).