valeur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#678
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
valeur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité ou justesse d’une chose, d’une idée, d’un ouvrage. Pronounced \va.lœʁ\. It ranks #678 in French word frequency. Often confused with valu and voler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | valeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for valeur is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.lœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #678 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for valeur, with forms such as "avleur", "vaelur", and "valeru". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "valu", "voler", "value", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is valeur, spelled V-A-L-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité ou justesse d’une chose, d’une idée, d’un ouvrage.
- 2Noblesse de caractère d’une personne.
- 3Importance ou intérêt que l’on porte à un être, à une chose, à un phénomène ou événement.
- 4Prix.
- 5Prix que l’on attache à une chose intellectuelle ou morale.
- 6Titre, action, obligation, etc.
- 7Idéologie ou règle morale d’une personne ou d’un groupe.
- 8Juste signification des termes, suivant l’usage reçu.
- 9L’amplitude lumineuse définissant la couleur (Voir WP)
- 10Mesure d’une grandeur.
- 11Expression quantitative d’une grandeur, constituée d’un nombre – la valeur numérique – et d’une référence.
- 12Contenu d’une variable ou d’une constante
- 13Durée d’une note ou d’un silence.
- 14Bravoure, mérite, vaillance, vertu guerrière.
- 15Appréciation de l’intensité de la sensation visuelle résultant du graphisme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avleur,vaelur,valeru,valeurr,valleur,valuer,vlaeur,vvaleur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for valeur
Misspelling Variants of "valeur"
Frequency rank: #678 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our French index: