valenciennes
\va.lɑ̃.sjɛn\
The verdict
“valenciennes” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,684. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,684
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dentelle fine, fabriquée originairement à Valenciennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valenciennes · valenciennes · French
valenciennes · rank #11,684 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,684
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Turner
Nearest frequency peer: Turner (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « valenciennes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traitées
traitées
88,320 corpus weight
- trouvées
trouvées
88,319 corpus weight
- Turner
Turner
88,318 corpus weight
- valenciennes
valenciennes
88,317 corpus weight
- vampires
vampires
88,316 corpus weight
- veau
veau
88,315 corpus weight
What this shows « valenciennes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valenciennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.lɑ̃.sjɛn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #11,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « valenciennes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around valenciennes (IPA \va.lɑ̃.sjɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,684 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dentelle fine, fabriquée originairement à Valenciennes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for valenciennes, with forms such as "avlenciennes", "vaelnciennes", and "valecniennes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is valenciennes, spelled V-A-L-E-N-C-I-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Dentelle fine, fabriquée originairement à Valenciennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valenciennes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une garniture de valenciennes.
Cadine restait émerveillée devant les brillants et les valenciennes que portaient les filles des grands jardiniers de Montreuil, venues au milieu de leurs roses.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avlenciennes
- vaelnciennes
- valecniennes
- valencciennes
- valenceinnes
- valencienens
- valencienes
- valencienness
- valenciennse
- valencinenes
- valenicennes
- valennciennes
- vallenciennes
- valneciennes
- vlaenciennes
- vvalenciennes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of valenciennes - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).