slave
\slav\
The verdict
“slave” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,563
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractéristique des peuples d’Europe centrale ou orientale dont la langue fait partie du groupe des langues slaves.
Corpus desk
Index FR-slave · slave · French
slave · rank #17,563 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,563
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH signées
Nearest frequency peer: signées (-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 « slave »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- satirique
satirique
82,441 corpus weight
- scandinave
scandinave
82,440 corpus weight
- signées
signées
82,439 corpus weight
- slave
slave
82,438 corpus weight
- sobriété
sobriété
82,437 corpus weight
- soulignent
soulignent
82,436 corpus weight
What this shows « slave » 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 | slave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \slav\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « slave »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around slave (IPA \slav\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,563 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Caractéristique des peuples d’Europe centrale ou orientale dont la langue fait partie du groupe des langues slaves.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for slave, with forms such as "lsave", "slaev", and "slavve". 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, "stade", "stage", "Steve", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is slave, spelled S-L-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Caractéristique des peuples d’Europe centrale ou orientale dont la langue fait partie du groupe des langues slaves.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfant, j'ai longtemps confondu la Syldavie avec la Slovénie qui était alors une des républiques de la Fédération socialiste yougoslave. Une confusion due à la paronymie de ces deux contrées slaves, mais due aussi à l'émotion avec laquelle mon grand-père ne parlait de la Slovénie.
Avec son teint très pâle, presque translucide, ses cheveux d’un blond platine et ses pommettes saillantes, elle correspondait parfaitement à l’image de la beauté slave telle que l’ont popularisée les agences de mannequins et les magazines après la chute de l’URSS.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsave
- slaev
- slavve
- sllave
- slvae
- sslave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slave - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).