Which to use
“pleuve” is a verb and “preuve” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #44,100
- “pleuve” frequency rank
- #950
- “preuve” frequency rank
- 45050
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pleuve | preuve |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Variante de pleuvoir. | Ce qui établit la véracité d’une proposition ou d’un fait. |
Where the eye mixes pleuve and preuve
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. pleuve and preuve follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: pleuve vs preuve
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: pleuve is \plœv\ while preuve is \pʁœv\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - l in “pleuve” becomes r in “preuve”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45050, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pleuve is recorded at frequency rank #44,100, classified as averb, pronounced \plœv\. preuve is at rank #950, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁœv\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 45050, this pair ranks #205,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of pleuve vs preuve
Shared letters: epuv. Private to "pleuve": l. Private to "preuve": r.
"pleuve" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV · "preuve" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "pleuve" and "preuve" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "pleuve" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "preuve" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #205,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pleuve" and "preuve" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pleuve vs pleuvent". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #205,791 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.