Xavier
\ɡza.vje\
The verdict
“Xavier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,635. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,635
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xavier · Xavier · French
Xavier · rank #4,635 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,635
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH voyait
Nearest frequency peer: voyait (-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 « Xavier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- volé
volé
95,369 corpus weight
- voyait
voyait
95,367 corpus weight
- Xavier
Xavier
95,366 corpus weight
- épargne
épargne
95,365 corpus weight
- abonnement
abonnement
95,364 corpus weight
- accusation
accusation
95,363 corpus weight
What this shows « Xavier » 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 | Xavier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡza.vje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Xavier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Xavier (IPA \ɡza.vje\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,635 among 62 “X” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Xavier, with forms such as "axvier", "xaiver", and "xaveir". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "XVIe", "Xavi", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Xavier, spelled X-A-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Xavier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme je range ma guitare pour le second set, Xavier me force à rester et à jouer encore : ça lui plaît ma façon de tchin-tchiner, à cette tête de lard !
Au cours de sa carrière, Xavier Dorison a coscénarisé un film, « Les brigades du Tigre », en 2006, adaptation de la célèbre série télé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- axvier
- xaiver
- xaveir
- xavierr
- xavire
- xavvier
- xvaier
- xxavier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Xavier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Xavier", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).