univers
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,612
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
univers is aFrenchnoun. It means: Le monde entier, l’ensemble de tout ce qui existe. Pronounced \y.ni.vɛʁ\. It ranks #1,612 in French word frequency. Often confused with universe and universel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | univers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ni.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for univers is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.ni.vɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,612 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for univers, with forms such as "nuivers", "uinvers", and "unievrs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "universe", "universel", "universal", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is univers, spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le monde entier, l’ensemble de tout ce qui existe.
- 2Notre galaxie, la Voie lactée, et par extension toute autre galaxie.
- 3Ensemble du globe terrestre.
- 4Ensemble des habitants de la planète.
- 5Ensemble de ce qui constitue le monde des personnages dans une œuvre de fiction.
- 6Groupe organisé formé d’une multitude d’êtres.
- 7Ensemble de personnes considérées dans leur environnement (matériel, psychologique, social, moral) et constituant une communauté à part.
- 8Ensemble de personnes formant un groupe social, un milieu particulier.
- 9Ce qui embrasse un champ d’activité, un domaine artistique, intellectuel, psychologique, moral, ou la croyance dans une technologie.
- 10Système, ensemble d’objets abstraits formant un tout harmonieusement organisé.
- 11Ensemble des issues possibles, résultats d’une expérience aléatoire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuivers,uinvers,unievrs,univerrs,universs,univesr,univres,univvers,unnivers,unviers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for univers
Misspelling Variants of "univers"
Frequency rank: #1,612 in French
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Nearby French words
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