vé
\ve\
The verdict
“vé” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,807) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,807
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lettre latine V, v.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ve · vé · French
vé · rank #44,807 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,807
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viscéral
Nearest frequency peer: viscéral (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « vé »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- vero
vero
55,198 corpus weight
- Victorien
Victorien
55,197 corpus weight
- vils
vils
55,196 corpus weight
- viscéral
viscéral
55,195 corpus weight
- vé
vé
55,194 corpus weight
- westerns
westerns
55,190 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « vé » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | vé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #44,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « vé »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vé is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ve\. Frequency #44,807 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vé, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vi", "vs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vé, spelled V-É.
Definition
- 1Lettre latine V, v.
- 2Cale en forme de V.
This word in other languages
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.