V2
\ve.dø\
The verdict
“V2” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,073) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,073
- frequency rank, French
- 148,117
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - À verbe second. Concernant l’ordre des mots d’une langue dans laquelle le verbe d’une proposition principale est toujours le deuxième constituant, comme l’allemand et le néerlandais. Les exemples s...
Corpus desk
Index FR-v2 · V2 · French
V2 · rank #24,073 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,073
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 148,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Utrecht
Nearest frequency peer: Utrecht (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “V2”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- usurpation
usurpation
75,931 corpus weight
- utilisables
utilisables
75,930 corpus weight
- Utrecht
Utrecht
75,929 corpus weight
- V2
V2
75,928 corpus weight
- vibrant
vibrant
75,927 corpus weight
- vieillards
vieillards
75,926 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “V2” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | V2 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ve.dø\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #24,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “V2” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for V2 is neighbouring look-alikes ("va", "vu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ve.dø\. Frequency #24,073 among 148,117 “V” headwords. Gloss: "À verbe second. Concernant l’ordre des mots d’une langue dans laquelle le verbe d’une proposition principale est toujours le deuxième constituant, comme l’allemand et le néerlandais. Les exemples s...".
Zero misspellings are on record for V2 in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "va", "vu", "vi", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is V2, spelled V-2.
Definition
- 1À verbe second. Concernant l’ordre des mots d’une langue dans laquelle le verbe d’une proposition principale est toujours le deuxième constituant, comme l’allemand et le néerlandais. Les exemples suivants montrent des ordres V2 en allemand : Ich lese dieses Buch. — Moi, je lis ce livre. Dieses Buch lese ich. — Ce livre, je le lis. Ich habe dieses Buch lesen wollen. — Moi, j’ai voulu lire ce livre. Dieses Buch habe ich lesen wollen. — Ce livre, j’ai voulu le lire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how V2 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour autant, il s’agit là du schéma d’une langue V2 à la fois restreinte et assouplie : une langue V2 stricte (comme par exemple l’allemand) est en effet une langue où le verbe, placé en deuxième position, ne peut être précédé que par un seul et unique terme (placé en première position) qui, par ailleurs, peut remplir n’importe quelle fonction. Tel était…
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.