veillée
\ve.je\
The verdict
“veillée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,132
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps pendant lequel on veille, soirée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veillee · veillée · French
veillée · rank #22,132 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,132
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vaud
Nearest frequency peer: Vaud (-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 « veillée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- universelles
universelles
77,872 corpus weight
- vapeurs
vapeurs
77,871 corpus weight
- Vaud
Vaud
77,870 corpus weight
- veillée
veillée
77,869 corpus weight
- Veronica
Veronica
77,868 corpus weight
- veuf
veuf
77,867 corpus weight
What this shows « veillée » 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 | veillée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « veillée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around veillée (IPA \ve.je\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,132 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for veillée, with forms such as "evillée", "veillee", and "veilleé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ville", "villes", "violée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is veillée, spelled V-E-I-L-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Temps pendant lequel on veille, soirée.
- 2Fête en soirée.
- 3Assemblée que les gens de village ou les artisans faisaient le soir pour travailler ensemble, en causant.
- 4Type de rassemblement commémoratif ou manifestation immobile, à caractère plutôt solennel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how veillée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tant que nous serons à Londres, Rémi et Mattia pourront aller jouer de la musique dans les rues, et je ne doute pas qu’ils ne gagnent bientôt de bonnes journées, surtout quand nous approcherons des fêtes de Noël, de ce que nous appelons les waits ou veillées.
Mes responsabilités m’inquiétaient, mais j’étais fier de m’asseoir au haut bout de la table, à côté de la miche dans laquelle je coupais de larges tranches au commencement de chaque repas ; j’étais fier surtout d’avoir, au cercle de la veillée, la place du coin, la place d’honneur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evillée
- veillee
- veilleé
- veilée
- veiléle
- velilée
- viellée
- vveillée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of veillée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "veillée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).