vale
\val\
The verdict
“vale” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,280) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,280
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de valer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vale · vale · French
vale · rank #27,280 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,280
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH urgentes
Nearest frequency peer: urgentes (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « vale »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- unifier
unifier
72,724 corpus weight
- unisson
unisson
72,723 corpus weight
- urgentes
urgentes
72,722 corpus weight
- vale
vale
72,721 corpus weight
- valeureux
valeureux
72,719 corpus weight
- valorisé
valorisé
72,718 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vale » 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 | vale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \val\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vale »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vale is neighbouring look-alikes ("VL", "vé", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \val\. Frequency #27,280 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for vale, with forms such as "avle", "vael", and "vlae". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VL", "vé", "vie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vale, spelled V-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de valer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de valer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de valer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de valer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de valer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avle
- vael
- vlae
- vvale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vale", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).