silver
\ˈsɪl.və\
The verdict
“silver” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,854
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Argent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-silver · silver · French
silver · rank #11,854 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,854
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH serpents
Nearest frequency peer: serpents (-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 « silver »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sanguin
sanguin
88,151 corpus weight
- scores
scores
88,150 corpus weight
- serpents
serpents
88,148 corpus weight
- silver
silver
88,147 corpus weight
- situent
situent
88,146 corpus weight
- sociologue
sociologue
88,145 corpus weight
What this shows « silver » 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 | silver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈsɪl.və\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « silver »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around silver (IPA \ˈsɪl.və\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,854 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for silver, with forms such as "islver", "silevr", and "sillver". 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, "soler", "situer", "singer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 silver, spelled S-I-L-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Argent.
- 2Pièces de monnaie en argent.
- 3Couverts et autres ustensiles de table en argent.
- 4N’importe quel objet en argent ou en quelque métal blanc que ce soit.
- 5Argent #CECECE.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how silver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was on one side Germany, with its silver monometallism, having to make up its bank reserves only with silver ; and on the other England, with its bi-monometallism, at one time dependent for its reserves on the gold that might come in, at another time running over the Continent to purchase silver for transmission to India.
The shilling was made of silver, it contained very little copper.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- islver
- silevr
- sillver
- silverr
- silvre
- silvver
- sivler
- sliver
- ssilver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of silver - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).