valoir
\va.lwaʁ\
The verdict
“valoir” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,304. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,304
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être d’un certain prix ; avoir un certain mérite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valoir · valoir · French
valoir · rank #5,304 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,304
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vache
Nearest frequency peer: vache (-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 « valoir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- transformé
transformé
94,700 corpus weight
- triple
triple
94,699 corpus weight
- vache
vache
94,698 corpus weight
- valoir
valoir
94,697 corpus weight
- Walter
Walter
94,696 corpus weight
- west
west
94,695 corpus weight
What this shows « valoir » 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 | valoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \va.lwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « valoir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around valoir (IPA \va.lwaʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,304 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for valoir, with forms such as "avloir", "valior", and "valloir". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "voir", "Valois", "valser", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is valoir, spelled V-A-L-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Être d’un certain prix ; avoir un certain mérite.
- 2Tenir lieu, avoir la valeur, la signification de.
- 3Rapporter ; donner du profit.
- 4Procurer ; faire obtenir ; produire.
- 5Avoir la même valeur.
- 6Être applicable à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà ce qui fait, quoique nous ne valions pas grand’chose, que nous vaudrons mieux que ne vaudront nos fils.
Grâce à cette mesure protectrice, les petits cultivateurs belges sont assurés de ne pas payer leurs engrais quatre fois ce qu'ils valent, […],
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avloir
- valior
- valloir
- valoirr
- valori
- vaolir
- vlaoir
- vvaloir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of valoir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "valoir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).