Wavre
\wavʁ\
The verdict
“Wavre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,954
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et chef-lieu de la province du Brabant wallon, en Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wavre · Wavre · French
Wavre · rank #45,954 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,954
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vérifiable
Nearest frequency peer: vérifiable (-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 « Wavre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voui
voui
54,051 corpus weight
- vouées
vouées
54,050 corpus weight
- voûté
voûté
54,049 corpus weight
- vérifiable
vérifiable
54,048 corpus weight
- Wavre
Wavre
54,047 corpus weight
- Waze
Waze
54,046 corpus weight
What this shows « Wavre » 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 | Wavre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \wavʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #45,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Wavre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Wavre (IPA \wavʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #45,954 among 549 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville et chef-lieu de la province du Brabant wallon, en Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wavre, with forms such as "awvre", "warve", and "waver". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "were", "Waze", "Wayne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Wavre, spelled W-A-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ville et chef-lieu de la province du Brabant wallon, en Belgique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Wavre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
WAVRE, (Géog. mod.) petite ville des Pays-bas, dans le Brabant-wallon, à trois lieues & demie de Louvain, à quatre & demie de Bruxelles, à cinq de Nivelle, & à sept de Namur. Cette place qui contenoit autrefois six mille communians, & plus de deux mille maisons, a éprouvé coup-sur-coup des incendies qui l’ont réduite à un simple bourg.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awvre
- warve
- waver
- wavrre
- wavvre
- wvare
- wwavre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wavre - 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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Same letter count
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