valentine
\va.lɑ̃.tin\
The verdict
“valentine” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,262. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,262
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Carte de vœux pour la Saint-Valentin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valentine · valentine · French
valentine · rank #16,262 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,262
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vaillant
Nearest frequency peer: vaillant (-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 « valentine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- télécom
télécom
83,742 corpus weight
- UQAM
UQAM
83,741 corpus weight
- vaillant
vaillant
83,740 corpus weight
- valentine
valentine
83,739 corpus weight
- verbale
verbale
83,738 corpus weight
- vertueux
vertueux
83,737 corpus weight
What this shows « valentine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | valentine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.lɑ̃.tin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « valentine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around valentine (IPA \va.lɑ̃.tin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,262 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for valentine, with forms such as "avlentine", "vaelntine", and "valenitne". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Valentino", "Valentin", "valentina", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is valentine, spelled V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Carte de vœux pour la Saint-Valentin.
- 2Enveloppe décorée destinée à l’envoi d’une carte de la Saint-Valentin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valentine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous est-il arrivé de déclarer votre flamme en adressant une « valentine »?
Un véritable cérémonial social comportant ses règles, ses coutumes comme le choix du papier ou de l’enveloppe : les amoureux de la Belle Époque utilisaient par exemple des enveloppes décorées dites « valentines » et l’emplacement du timbre répondait à une codification secrète !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avlentine
- vaelntine
- valenitne
- valenntine
- valentien
- valentinne
- valentnie
- valenttine
- valetnine
- vallentine
- valnetine
- vlaentine
- vvalentine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of valentine - 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 "valentine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).