XVIe
\sɛ.zjɛm\
The verdict
“XVIe” sits in 15 confusable pairs (corpus #9,768) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,768
- frequency rank, French
- 62
- “X” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seizième.
Corpus desk
Index FR-xvie · XVIe · French
XVIe · rank #9,768 · 4 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,768
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 62
- PHOTO-FINISH visent
Nearest frequency peer: visent (-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 « XVIe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- verront
verront
90,236 corpus weight
- violon
violon
90,235 corpus weight
- visent
visent
90,234 corpus weight
- XVIe
XVIe
90,233 corpus weight
- égyptien
égyptien
90,231 corpus weight
- éphémère
éphémère
90,230 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « XVIe » 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 | XVIe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛ.zjɛm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « XVIe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for XVIe is neighbouring look-alikes ("XXe", "XXIe", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \sɛ.zjɛm\. Frequency #9,768 among 62 “X” headwords. Gloss: "Seizième.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for XVIe, with forms such as "vxie", "xvei", and "xvvie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "XXe", "XXIe", "XVIIe", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is XVIe, spelled X-V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Seizième.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- vxie
- xvei
- xvvie
- xxvie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of XVIe - 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 "XVIe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).