univers

/\y.ni.vɛʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for univers
PropertyValue
Headwordunivers
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\y.ni.vɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,612
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of univers in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Le monde entier, l’ensemble de tout ce qui existe.
  2. 2
    Notre galaxie, la Voie lactée, et par extension toute autre galaxie.
  3. 3
    Ensemble du globe terrestre.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des habitants de la planète.
  5. 5
    Ensemble de ce qui constitue le monde des personnages dans une œuvre de fiction.
  6. 6
    Groupe organisé formé d’une multitude d’êtres.
  7. 7
    Ensemble de personnes considérées dans leur environnement (matériel, psychologique, social, moral) et constituant une communauté à part.
  8. 8
    Ensemble de personnes formant un groupe social, un milieu particulier.
  9. 9
    Ce qui embrasse un champ d’activité, un domaine artistique, intellectuel, psychologique, moral, ou la croyance dans une technologie.
  10. 10
    Système, ensemble d’objets abstraits formant un tout harmonieusement organisé.
  11. 11
    Ensemble 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"

nuivers7uinvers7unievrs7univerrs8universs8univesr7univres7univvers8
Misspelling Variants of "univers"

Frequency rank: #1,612 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "univers"?
"univers" is spelled U-N-I-V-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \y.ni.vɛʁ\.
What does "univers" mean?
As a noun, "univers" means: Le monde entier, l’ensemble de tout ce qui existe.
What words are commonly confused with "univers"?
"univers" is commonly confused with "universe", "universel", "universal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "univers"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "univers" is \y.ni.vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "univers" come from?
"univers" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.