val
\val\
The verdict
“val” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,650) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,650
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vallée étroite, espace de terre resserré entre deux coteaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-val · val · French
val · rank #3,650 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,650
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH transformer
Nearest frequency peer: transformer (-2 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 « val »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- suppression
suppression
96,355 corpus weight
- tournage
tournage
96,354 corpus weight
- transformer
transformer
96,353 corpus weight
- val
val
96,351 corpus weight
- voyageurs
voyageurs
96,349 corpus weight
- écrits
écrits
96,348 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « val » 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 | val |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \val\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « val »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for val is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \val\. Frequency #3,650 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Vallée étroite, espace de terre resserré entre deux coteaux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for val, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vi", "vs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is val, spelled V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Vallée étroite, espace de terre resserré entre deux coteaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how val appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi le même risque, caractérisé par la note 6, sera associé à un tronçon de levée présentant un haut aléa de rupture et protégeant un val à vulnérabilité moyenne et à un autre affecté d'un aléa modéré mais protégeant un val à vulnérabilité forte.
Le Doubs prend sa source à Mouthe (25) […] : il passe d'un val à l'autre en franchissant les monts par des cluses ou à la faveur de l'Accident de Pontarlier.
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.
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