SVP
\sil.vu.plɛ\
The verdict
“SVP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,120) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,120
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’il vous plaît.
Corpus desk
Index FR-svp · SVP · French
SVP · rank #7,120 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,120
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH thermique
Nearest frequency peer: thermique (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « SVP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- souhait
souhait
92,884 corpus weight
- statuts
statuts
92,883 corpus weight
- SVP
SVP
92,881 corpus weight
- thermique
thermique
92,880 corpus weight
- transaction
transaction
92,879 corpus weight
- trouvais
trouvais
92,878 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « SVP » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | SVP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sil.vu.plɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « SVP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SVP is neighbouring look-alikes ("sy", "SVT", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \sil.vu.plɛ\. Frequency #7,120 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "S’il vous plaît.".
No misspelling variants are generated for SVP in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sy", "SVT", "syn", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is SVP, spelled S-V-P.
Definition
- 1S’il vous plaît.
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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