Valmy
\val.mi\
The verdict
“Valmy” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,247
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valmy · Valmy · French
Valmy · rank #44,247 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,247
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH valident
Nearest frequency peer: valident (-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 « Valmy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vaillamment
vaillamment
55,757 corpus weight
- Valeria
Valeria
55,756 corpus weight
- valident
valident
55,755 corpus weight
- Valmy
Valmy
55,754 corpus weight
- Vanves
Vanves
55,753 corpus weight
- various
various
55,752 corpus weight
What this shows « Valmy » 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 | Valmy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \val.mi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Valmy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Valmy (IPA \val.mi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,247 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Valmy, with forms such as "avlmy", "vallmy", and "valmmy". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "valu", "value", "valve", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Valmy, spelled V-A-L-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
- 2Bataille qui s’y déroula le 20 septembre 1792.
- 3Quartier de Lyon à l’ouest de la Saône, dans le 9ᵉ arrondissement, rattaché à Vaise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Valmy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Français qui étaient sortis de l’Argonne, avaient occupé la colline de Valmy d’où ils canonnèrent les Prussiens. Brunswick dut livrer contre eux une bataille à front renversé ; il fut surpris par l’allant des Français et la vigueur de leur canonnade.
Ce n’est donc que rétrospectivement que les députés prennent conscience que Valmy a fait mieux que sauver la République naissante : elle l’a fondée, comme si le baptême du feu reçu le 20 [septembre 1792] avait permis son onction légale le 22.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avlmy
- vallmy
- valmmy
- valmyy
- valym
- vamly
- vlamy
- vvalmy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Valmy - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).