valide

/\va.lid\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,258

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

valide is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est valable, qui a les conditions requises par la loi pour produire son effet. Pronounced \va.lid\. It ranks #7,258 in French word frequency. Often confused with vide and value.

Key facts for valide
PropertyValue
Headwordvalide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\va.lid\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,258
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of valide in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for valide is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.lid\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,258 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 valide, with forms such as "avlide", "vailde", and "valdie". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "vide", "value", "varié", 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 valide, spelled V-A-L-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est valable, qui a les conditions requises par la loi pour produire son effet.
  2. 2
    Qui a été recoupé et vérifié avec plusieurs sources.
  3. 3
    Qui est sain, vigoureux, en bonne santé.
  4. 4
    Qui est apte à travailler ; qui n'a aucun handicap.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: avlide,vailde,valdie,validde,valied,vallide,vlaide,vvalide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for valide

Misspelling Variants of "valide"

avlide6vailde6valdie6validde7valied6vallide7vlaide6vvalide7
Misspelling Variants of "valide"

Frequency rank: #7,258 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "valide"?
"valide" is spelled V-A-L-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \va.lid\.
What does "valide" mean?
As an adj, "valide" means: Qui est valable, qui a les conditions requises par la loi pour produire son effet.
What words are commonly confused with "valide"?
"valide" is commonly confused with "vide", "value", "varié". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "valide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "valide" is \va.lid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "valide" come from?
"valide" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.