vallée
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,697
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vallée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espace resserré entre deux ou plusieurs montagnes. Pronounced \va.le\. It ranks #2,697 in French word frequency. Often confused with ville and Valls.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vallée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vallée is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \va.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,697 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vallée, with forms such as "avllée", "vallee", and "valleé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ville", "Valls", "volée", 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 vallée, spelled V-A-L-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espace resserré entre deux ou plusieurs montagnes.
- 2Bassin d’un cours d’eau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: avllée,vallee,valleé,valée,valéle,vlalée,vvallée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vallée
Misspelling Variants of "vallée"
Frequency rank: #2,697 in French
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Other entries that begin with the letter V in our French index: