veillons
\ve.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“veillons” is uncommon French (frequency #67,958 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,958
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de veiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veillons · veillons · French
veillons · rank #67,958 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,958
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH veilleront
Nearest frequency peer: veilleront (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « veillons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- utilitariste
utilitariste
32,047 corpus weight
- vallat
vallat
32,046 corpus weight
- veilleront
veilleront
32,044 corpus weight
- veillons
veillons
32,043 corpus weight
- velues
velues
32,042 corpus weight
- verrouillées
verrouillées
32,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veillons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ve.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veillons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veillons is uncommon French at frequency #67,958 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ve.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for veillons, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is veillons, spelled V-E-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de veiller.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de veiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how veillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« À travers notre recrutement, nous veillons à ouvrir les portes du monde professionnel aux personnes en situation de handicap », garantit Chantal Lasnier.
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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