Steven
\sti.vœn\
The verdict
“Steven” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,033
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-steven · Steven · French
Steven · rank #6,033 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,033
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH soutiens
Nearest frequency peer: soutiens (-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 « Steven »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- secrète
secrète
93,971 corpus weight
- solitaire
solitaire
93,970 corpus weight
- soutiens
soutiens
93,969 corpus weight
- Steven
Steven
93,968 corpus weight
- suites
suites
93,967 corpus weight
- supprimé
supprimé
93,966 corpus weight
What this shows « Steven » 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 | Steven |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \sti.vœn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Steven »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Steven (IPA \sti.vœn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #6,033 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Steven, with forms such as "setven", "ssteven", and "steevn". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Sven", "Stevens", "sève", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Steven, spelled S-T-E-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Steven appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Guinéen, qui pourrait partir durant l’été, a pesé sur la défense des « Villains » de Steven Gerrard.
Néanmoins, sans embarras, la juridiction satisfait l’aspiration qui émane du box en prononçant à l’encontre de Steven Daniel un emprisonnement de vingt-quatre mois dont douze avec sursis probatoire pendant deux ans avec une obligation de soin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- setven
- ssteven
- steevn
- stevenn
- stevne
- stevven
- stteven
- stveen
- tseven
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Steven - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Steven", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).