vallon
\va.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“vallon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,766
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite vallée, espace de terre resserré entre deux coteaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vallon · vallon · French
vallon · rank #16,766 · 7 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,766
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH urne
Nearest frequency peer: urne (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « vallon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ups
ups
83,237 corpus weight
- urne
urne
83,236 corpus weight
- vallon
vallon
83,235 corpus weight
- valve
valve
83,234 corpus weight
- Valéry
Valéry
83,233 corpus weight
- vendait
vendait
83,232 corpus weight
What this shows « vallon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | vallon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vallon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vallon (IPA \va.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,766 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petite vallée, espace de terre resserré entre deux coteaux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vallon, with forms such as "avllon", "vallno", and "vallonn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Valls", "violon", "vallons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vallon, spelled V-A-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petite vallée, espace de terre resserré entre deux coteaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vallon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jusqu’après Valpuiseaux, sur plus d'une lieue, les groupes de fermes se suivent. Ensuite le vallon est solitaire, pli étroit et profond dont les côtés sont striés par une infinité de vaux très courts.
Vallon de Bouafles. — La craie marneuse est très développée dans les vallons qui viennent déboucher à Bouafles ; elle est très nettement visible en particulier, un peu en amont de Basse-Copette sur la route de Campneuseville et elle monte là extrêmement haut.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avllon
- vallno
- vallonn
- valoln
- valon
- vlalon
- vvallon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vallon - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).