TVA

\te.ve.a\

/\te.ve.a\/ noun

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The verdict

“TVA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,450) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#4,450
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté i...

Corpus desk

Index FR-tva · TVA · French

TVA · rank #4,450 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,450
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH universel

Nearest frequency peer: universel (+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 « TVA »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « TVA » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

TVA vs ty
0% similar
TVA vs tx
0% similar
TVA vs two
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for TVA
PropertyValue
HeadwordTVA
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\te.ve.a\
Letters3
Frequency rank#4,450
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « TVA »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).TVAse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « universel » (#4,451), « séances » (#4,448), « utiles » (#4,452). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « TVA » est au #4,450. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for TVA is neighbouring look-alikes ("ty", "tx", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \te.ve.a\. Frequency #4,450 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté i...".

Zero misspellings are on record for TVA in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ty", "tx", "two", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is TVA, spelled T-V-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté in fine par le consommateur final.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how TVA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Didier Ridoret, le président de la Fédération française du bâtiment, redoute en 2011 un retour de la TVA de 5,5% à 19,6% pour les travaux d’entretien et de rénovation.
  2. L’idée de déployer tous les fastes de la République et d’afficher une solennité churchillienne pour annoncer une augmentation de 1,6 point de la TVA ne peut venir que de cerveaux hallucinés.

This word in other languages

VAT(English)IVA(Español)MwSt.(Deutsch)IVA(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "TVA"?
"TVA" is spelled T-V-A. The IPA pronunciation is \te.ve.a\.
What does "TVA" mean?
As a noun, "TVA" means: Impôt indirect sur la consommation, perçu par l’administration fiscale sur la valeur ajoutée réalisée à chaque étape de la production et de la commercialisation des biens et services, et supporté i...
What words are commonly confused with "TVA"?
"TVA" is commonly confused with "ty", "tx", "two". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "TVA"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "TVA" is \te.ve.a\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "TVA" come from?
"TVA" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "TVA", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list