veilleur de nuit

/\vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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Confusables

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similar word pairs

veilleur de nuit is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vigile, veilleur qui assurait la surveillance des villes la nuit et qui était chargé de crier les heures durant la nuit. Pronounced \vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\.

Key facts for veilleur de nuit
PropertyValue
Headwordveilleur de nuit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

veilleur de nuit is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for veilleur de nuit is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for veilleur de nuit in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 veilleur de nuit, spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -N-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vigile, veilleur qui assurait la surveillance des villes la nuit et qui était chargé de crier les heures durant la nuit.
  2. 2
    Gardien de bâtiments civils la nuit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "veilleur de nuit"?
"veilleur de nuit" is spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-U-R- -D-E- -N-U-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\.
What does "veilleur de nuit" mean?
As a noun, "veilleur de nuit" means: Vigile, veilleur qui assurait la surveillance des villes la nuit et qui était chargé de crier les heures durant la nuit.
How do you pronounce "veilleur de nuit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "veilleur de nuit" is \vɛ.jœʁ də nɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "veilleur de nuit" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.