rover
\ʁɔ.vœʁ\
The verdict
“rover” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,049. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,049
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Robot mobile conçu pour se déplacer, effectuer des prélèvements, analyses ou photographies à la surface d’astres éloignés de la Terre et du système solaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rover · rover · French
rover · rank #18,049 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,049
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revêt
Nearest frequency peer: revêt (-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 « rover »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- revendiqué
revendiqué
81,955 corpus weight
- revêt
revêt
81,953 corpus weight
- rover
rover
81,952 corpus weight
- royauté
royauté
81,951 corpus weight
- rustique
rustique
81,950 corpus weight
- râle
râle
81,949 corpus weight
What this shows « rover » 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 | rover |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.vœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rover »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rover (IPA \ʁɔ.vœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,049 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rover, with forms such as "orver", "roevr", and "roverr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ruer", "ryder", "royer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 rover, spelled R-O-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Robot mobile conçu pour se déplacer, effectuer des prélèvements, analyses ou photographies à la surface d’astres éloignés de la Terre et du système solaire.
- 2Rôdeur, position d’un joueur au centre du terrain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rover appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les rovers Opportunity et Spirit se sont posés sur des faces opposées de Mars en 2004 et sont partis à la recherche de signes géologiques qui démontreraient que cette planète froide et sèche était jadis humide et chaude.
Après avoir parcouru pas moins de 468 millions de kilomètres dans l'espace depuis son décollage en juillet 2020 du cap Canaveral en Floride, la mission Mars 2020 s’apprête à larguer le rover Perseverance à la surface de la planète Mars.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orver
- roevr
- roverr
- rovre
- rovver
- rrover
- rvoer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rover - 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 "rover", 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).