XVe
\kɛ̃.zjɛm\
The verdict
“XVe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,284) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,284
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quinzième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xve · XVe · French
XVe · rank #12,284 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,284
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH voudront
Nearest frequency peer: voudront (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « XVe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- violette
violette
87,720 corpus weight
- VIP
VIP
87,719 corpus weight
- voudront
voudront
87,718 corpus weight
- XVe
XVe
87,717 corpus weight
- yang
yang
87,716 corpus weight
- zombie
zombie
87,715 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « XVe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | XVe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \kɛ̃.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « XVe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for XVe is neighbouring look-alikes ("XX", "XY", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \kɛ̃.zjɛm\. Frequency #12,284 among 62 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Quinzième.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for XVe, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "XX", "XY", "XXe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is XVe, spelled X-V-E.
Definition
- 1Quinzième.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how XVe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ouvrières des mines et des salines des Vosges et du Jura utilisèrent ces bénates du XVᵉ au XVIIIᵉ siècle.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).