variety
\vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.ti\
The verdict
“variety” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,585
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété, type, catégorie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-variety · variety · French
variety · rank #41,585 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,585
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH variait
Nearest frequency peer: variait (-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 « variety »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Usain
Usain
58,419 corpus weight
- valser
valser
58,418 corpus weight
- variait
variait
58,417 corpus weight
- variety
variety
58,416 corpus weight
- Verlag
Verlag
58,415 corpus weight
- vermeil
vermeil
58,414 corpus weight
What this shows « variety » 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 | variety |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.ti\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « variety »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around variety (IPA \vəˈɹaɪ.ɪ.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,585 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for variety, with forms such as "avriety", "vairety", and "vareity". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "varié", "variés", "varier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is variety, spelled V-A-R-I-E-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Variété, type, catégorie.
- 2Variété, spectacle de variété.
- 3Variété.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how variety appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avriety
- vairety
- vareity
- varietty
- varietyy
- varieyt
- varitey
- varriety
- vraiety
- vvariety
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of variety - 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 "variety", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).