veillent
\vɛj\
The verdict
“veillent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,572. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,572
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de veiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veillent · veillent · French
veillent · rank #26,572 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,572
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH uh
Nearest frequency peer: uh (-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 « veillent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tueuse
tueuse
73,432 corpus weight
- turban
turban
73,431 corpus weight
- uh
uh
73,430 corpus weight
- veillent
veillent
73,429 corpus weight
- vermine
vermine
73,427 corpus weight
- veuilles
veuilles
73,426 corpus weight
What this shows « veillent » 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 | veillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vɛj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « veillent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around veillent (IPA \vɛj\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,572 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for veillent, with forms such as "evillent", "veilelnt", and "veilent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "veulent", "violent", "veiller", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is veillent, spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de veiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de veiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how veillent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hommes ont formé une académie galante dont le but principal est de greluchonner ; ils veillent jour et nuit à maintenir l’annuel des nymphes de cette pépinière et prélèvent sur les gains amoureux le salaire de leur office.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evillent
- veilelnt
- veilent
- veillennt
- veillentt
- veilletn
- veillnet
- velilent
- viellent
- vveillent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of veillent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "veillent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).