# valet

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈvæleɪ/ · frequency rank #23,427

## Definitions
1. A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
2. A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
3. A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
4. A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
5. A person employed to clean or park cars.
6. A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
7. A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
8. A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.

## Easily confused with
- **vet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vet)
- **vat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vat)
- **vast** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vast)
- **vile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vile)
- **vase** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vase)
- **volt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-volt)
- **vape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vape)
- **Viet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-viet)
- **vane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vane)
- **vole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vole)
- **value** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-value)
- **valid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-valid)
- **valve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-valve)
- **vault** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-vault)
- **valor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-valor)
- **Valle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-valle)
- **valley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-valley)
- **values** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-values)
- **valued** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-valued)
- **violet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/valet-vs-violet)

## Common misspellings (7)
`avlet`, `vaelt`, `valett`, `vallet`, `valte`, `vlaet`, `vvalet`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/valet