sévères
\se.vɛʁ\
The verdict
“sévères” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Pluriel de sévère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-severes · sévères · French
sévères · rank #10,250 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,250
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Séville
Nearest frequency peer: Séville (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sévères”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- sélections
sélections
89,754 corpus weight
- séquences
séquences
89,753 corpus weight
- Séville
Séville
89,752 corpus weight
- sévères
sévères
89,751 corpus weight
- talentueux
talentueux
89,750 corpus weight
- talon
talon
89,749 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sévères” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | sévères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \se.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sévères” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around sévères (IPA \se.vɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,250 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de sévère.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for sévères, with forms such as "severes", "ssévères", and "svéères". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sphères", "sévices", "severus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is sévères, spelled S-É-V-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de sévère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sévères appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est l’une des formes les plus sévères du cancer…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- severes
- ssévères
- svéères
- sévrèes
- sévvères
- sévèers
- sévèress
- sévèrres
- sévèrse
- séèvres
- ésvères
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sévères - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sévères", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.