trouvaille
\tʁu.vɑj\
The verdict
“trouvaille” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,446. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,446
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chose trouvée remarquable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trouvaille · trouvaille · French
trouvaille · rank #22,446 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,446
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traversait
Nearest frequency peer: traversait (-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 « trouvaille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traduites
traduites
77,558 corpus weight
- traumatisé
traumatisé
77,557 corpus weight
- traversait
traversait
77,556 corpus weight
- trouvaille
trouvaille
77,555 corpus weight
- truck
truck
77,554 corpus weight
- trèfle
trèfle
77,552 corpus weight
What this shows « trouvaille » 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 | trouvaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁu.vɑj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trouvaille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around trouvaille (IPA \tʁu.vɑj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,446 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for trouvaille, with forms such as "rtouvaille", "toruvaille", and "trouaville". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Trouville", "trouvailles", "trouille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is trouvaille, spelled T-R-O-U-V-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Chose trouvée remarquable.
- 2Chose trouvée heureusement et par hasard.
- 3Invention amusante.
- 4Découverte officielle de vestiges anciens ou d’un objet ancien.
- 5Météorite découverte par hasard, par opposition à celle que l’on a vu tomber, que l’on a retrouvée peu après son atterrissage et que l’on appelle une chute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trouvaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il parlait d’une façon familière, très sobrement, avec des trouvailles de mots.
John Walker, un chimiste britannique ayant inventé l’allumette par erreur en 1827, n’a jamais voulu faire breveter sa trouvaille, « trop triviale » à son goût. Pourtant, il en tirera tout de même quelques bénéfices financiers, avant d’être copié par divers industriels dès 1829.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtouvaille
- toruvaille
- trouaville
- trouvaile
- trouvailel
- trouvalile
- trouvialle
- trouvvaille
- trovuaille
- trrouvaille
- truovaille
- ttrouvaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trouvaille - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).