valse
\vals\
The verdict
“valse” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,182
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse tournante exécutée par un couple sur un mouvement, habituellement à trois temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-valse · valse · French
valse · rank #19,182 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,182
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vestes
Nearest frequency peer: vestes (+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 « valse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traumatique
traumatique
80,823 corpus weight
- tripes
tripes
80,822 corpus weight
- tunique
tunique
80,821 corpus weight
- valse
valse
80,819 corpus weight
- vestes
vestes
80,818 corpus weight
- Villers
Villers
80,816 corpus weight
What this shows « valse » 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 | valse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vals\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « valse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around valse (IPA \vals\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,182 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for valse, with forms such as "avlse", "vales", and "vallse". 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, "vas", "vols", "volé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 valse, spelled V-A-L-S-E.
Definition
- 1Danse tournante exécutée par un couple sur un mouvement, habituellement à trois temps.
- 2Air sur lequel on exécute cette danse.
- 3Parade amoureuse du coq.
- 4Cocktail à base de bière et de sirop de menthe.
- 5Succession rapide d’événements, à l’image d’une danse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how valse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsqu'il a racheté ce petit dancing, en 1986, ce n'était qu'un modeste « parquet » où les sexagénaires des villages entre Narbonne et Béziers aimaient se retrouver le samedi soir pour danser le tango et la valse au rythme d'un orchestre local.
Mes trois aînés avaient en commun un amour exalté de la danse. La polka pointée, la mazurka, la scottish, la valse étourdissante, la valse vertigineuse, le pas des patineurs, les quadrilles, les lanciers…, rien ne leur était inconnu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avlse
- vales
- vallse
- valsse
- vasle
- vlase
- vvalse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of valse - 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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).