silva
\sil.va\
The verdict
“silva” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,309. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,309
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie boisée ou enforestée, mais exploitée pour son bois, du territoire d'un village médiéval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silva · silva · French
silva · rank #8,309 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,309
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH secte
Nearest frequency peer: secte (-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 « silva »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sages
sages
91,695 corpus weight
- secrétariat
secrétariat
91,694 corpus weight
- secte
secte
91,693 corpus weight
- silva
silva
91,692 corpus weight
- single
single
91,691 corpus weight
- soulever
soulever
91,690 corpus weight
What this shows « silva » 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 | silva |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sil.va\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silva »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around silva (IPA \sil.va\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,309 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partie boisée ou enforestée, mais exploitée pour son bois, du territoire d'un village médiéval.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for silva, with forms such as "islva", "silav", and "sillva". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sylla", "simba", "silver", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is silva, spelled S-I-L-V-A.
Definition
- 1Partie boisée ou enforestée, mais exploitée pour son bois, du territoire d'un village médiéval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silva appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la trilogie classique de l'espace rural , l’ager et la silva sont d’identification aisée, tant au niveau de l’écologie qu’à ceux des systèmes de production ou des modes d’appropriation et de gestion . Le saltus en revanche apparaît une catégorie fourre-tout, tant en termes de couverts végétaux que d'utilisation , même si l'usage pastoral y occupe de…
La silva proche des habitats fut totalement modifiée par l'action de l'homme qui traçait ses sentiers, taillait des arbres, bûcheronnait, pendant que ses bêtes broutaient les feuilles et les jeunes pousses. […]. Partout, la silva parcourue par les hommes et par les bêtes « était intriquée à la forêt sauvage comme les bois familiers s'intriquent dans les c…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islva
- silav
- sillva
- silvva
- sivla
- sliva
- ssilva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silva - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).