valle
[ˈbaʎe]
The verdict
“valle” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,200) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,200
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Val, vallée, vallon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valle · valle · French
valle · rank #36,200 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,200
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH valez
Nearest frequency peer: valez (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « valle »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- unissant
unissant
63,804 corpus weight
- vagabonds
vagabonds
63,803 corpus weight
- valez
valez
63,802 corpus weight
- valle
valle
63,801 corpus weight
- vendons
vendons
63,800 corpus weight
- vertigineux
vertigineux
63,799 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « valle » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | valle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaʎe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « valle »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for valle is neighbouring look-alikes ("volé", "vase", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbaʎe]. Frequency #36,200 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Val, vallée, vallon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for valle, with forms such as "avlle", "valel", and "vlale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "volé", "vase", "valu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is valle, spelled V-A-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Val, vallée, vallon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avlle
- valel
- vlale
- vvalle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of valle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "valle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).