veillez

/\ve.je\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,727

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

16

similar word pairs

veillez is aFrenchverb. It means: Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de veiller. Pronounced \ve.je\. Often confused with ville and villes.

Key facts for veillez
PropertyValue
Headwordveillez
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ve.je\
Letters7
Frequency rank#23,727
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of veillez in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for veillez is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,727 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for veillez, with forms such as "evillez", "veilelz", and "veilez". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "ville", "villes", "vrille", 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 veillez, spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de veiller.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de veiller.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: evillez,veilelz,veilez,veillezz,veillze,velilez,viellez,vveillez

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for veillez

Misspelling Variants of "veillez"

evillez7veilelz7veilez6veillezz8veillze7velilez7viellez7vveillez8
Misspelling Variants of "veillez"

Frequency rank: #23,727 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "veillez"?
"veillez" is spelled V-E-I-L-L-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \ve.je\.
What does "veillez" mean?
As a verb, "veillez" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de veiller.
What words are commonly confused with "veillez"?
"veillez" is commonly confused with "ville", "villes", "vrille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "veillez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "veillez" is \ve.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "veillez" come from?
"veillez" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.