œuvrer
\œ.vʁe\
The verdict
“œuvrer” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,423. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,423
- frequency rank, French
- 21
- “Œ” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uvrer · œuvrer · French
œuvrer · rank #28,423 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,423
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 21
- PHOTO-FINISH étonnants
Nearest frequency peer: étonnants (-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 « œuvrer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étau
étau
71,581 corpus weight
- éteintes
éteintes
71,580 corpus weight
- étonnants
étonnants
71,579 corpus weight
- œuvrer
œuvrer
71,578 corpus weight
- 2A
2A
71,577 corpus weight
- Abdelkader
Abdelkader
71,575 corpus weight
What this shows « œuvrer » 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 | œuvrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \œ.vʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « œuvrer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around œuvrer (IPA \œ.vʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,423 among 21 “Œ” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for œuvrer, with forms such as "uœvrer", "œurver", and "œuverr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "œuvres", "œuvre", "user", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is œuvrer, spelled Œ-U-V-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Travailler.
- 2Agir pour quelque chose d’important, de noble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how œuvrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Naguère l’artiste rebuté par la stupidité de la foule se repliait dans sa coquille, œuvrait silencieusement, en garde contre le pompiérisme odieux de son époque, attendant son heure qui sonnait toujours trop tard.
Dans les sous-sols immenses, à perte de vue, œuvraient des machines dociles.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uœvrer
- œurver
- œuverr
- œuvrerr
- œuvrrer
- œuvvrer
- œvurer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of œuvrer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "œuvrer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).