# Versailles

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /vɛəˈsaɪ/ · frequency rank #20,261

## Definitions
1. A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
2. The Palace of Versailles.
3. The Treaty of Versailles (1919).

## Etymology
Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).

## Common misspellings (13)
`evrsailles`, `verasilles`, `verrsailles`, `versailels`, `versailes`, `versailless`, `versaillse`, `versaliles`, `versialles`, `verssailles`, `vesrailles`, `vresailles`, `vversailles`

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