valériane
\va.le.ʁjan\
The verdict
“valériane” is an uncommon French word, ranked #62,701 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #62,701
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des caprifoliacées (anciennement dans la famille des valérianacées) comme la valériane rouge (Centranthus ruber) ; à toutes les plantes du genre botaniqu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valériane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.le.ʁjan\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “valériane” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valériane is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.le.ʁjan\. Corpus data places it at rank #62,701 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des caprifoliacées (anciennement dans la famille des valérianacées) comme la valériane rouge (Centranthus ruber) ; à toutes les plantes du genre botaniqu...".
valériane has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 valériane, spelled V-A-L-É-R-I-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des caprifoliacées (anciennement dans la famille des valérianacées) comme la valériane rouge (Centranthus ruber) ; à toutes les plantes du genre botanique Valeriana où l'on retrouve la valériane officinale. De même qu'à la valériane grecque (Polemonium caeruleum) de la famille des Polémoniacées.
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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Using “valériane”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-A-L-É-R-I-A-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \va.le.ʁjan\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.