veille
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,203
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
veille is aFrenchnoun. It means: État du corps de l’homme ou de l’animal, dans lequel les sens sont en action. Pronounced \vɛj\. It ranks #2,203 in French word frequency. Often confused with vile and ville.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for veille is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,203 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for veille, with forms such as "eville", "veile", and "veilel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vile", "ville", "voile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is veille, spelled V-E-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1État du corps de l’homme ou de l’animal, dans lequel les sens sont en action.
- 2Action de veiller volontairement dans le temps habituellement consacré au sommeil.
- 3Veillée.
- 4Sentinelle, garde qui se fait pendant la nuit.
- 5État d'un dispositif technologique intermédiaire entre l'arrêt complet et le mode de fonctionnement normal, dans lequel la plupart des fonctions sont désactivées afin de diminuer la consommation énergétique.
- 6Grande et longue application qu’on donne à l’étude, aux productions de l’esprit ou aux grandes affaires, le plus souvent au détriment du sommeil.
- 7Une certaine partie de la nuit, dans la division qu’en faisaient les anciens.
- 8Jour qui précède un jour déterminé.
- 9Époque immédiatement antérieure.
- 10Activité qui consiste à étudier des informations stratégiques pour permettre d'anticiper des évènements.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eville,veile,veilel,velile,vveille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for veille
Misspelling Variants of "veille"
Frequency rank: #2,203 in French
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Nearby French words
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