veer
\vɪə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“veer” is uncommon French (frequency #88,211 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,211
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tourner, virer de bord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veer · veer · French
veer · rank #88,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,211
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH validera
Nearest frequency peer: validera (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « veer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- usi
usi
11,795 corpus weight
- validera
validera
11,791 corpus weight
- veer
veer
11,790 corpus weight
- Villebon
Villebon
11,787 corpus weight
- vinaigres
vinaigres
11,786 corpus weight
- virevoltant
virevoltant
11,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɪə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veer is uncommon French at frequency #88,211 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vɪə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tourner, virer de bord.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for veer, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 veer, spelled V-E-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tourner, virer de bord.
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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