velléité
\ve.le.i.te\
The verdict
“velléité” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,998
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Envie faible de faire quelque chose, hésitante et inefficace, pas forcément suivie d’un acte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-velleite · velléité · French
velléité · rank #49,998 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,998
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH versera
Nearest frequency peer: versera (+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 « velléité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- utiliserez
utiliserez
50,006 corpus weight
- vaillante
vaillante
50,005 corpus weight
- velléité
velléité
50,003 corpus weight
- versera
versera
50,002 corpus weight
- vigan
vigan
50,001 corpus weight
- virils
virils
50,000 corpus weight
What this shows « velléité » 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 | velléité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.le.i.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « velléité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around velléité (IPA \ve.le.i.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,998 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Envie faible de faire quelque chose, hésitante et inefficace, pas forcément suivie d’un acte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for velléité, with forms such as "evlléité", "velleite", and "velliété". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Villette", "vélocité", "velléités", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 velléité, spelled V-E-L-L-É-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Envie faible de faire quelque chose, hésitante et inefficace, pas forcément suivie d’un acte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how velléité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a très loin de la velléité à la volonté, de la volonté à la résolution, de la résolution au choix des moyens, du choix des moyens à l’application.
Il y avait cela de peu édifiant dans ses velléités religieuses, qu'elles ne lui revenaient jamais si fréquemment que lorsqu'il se dégoûtait ou se désespérait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evlléité
- velleite
- velliété
- velléitté
- velléiét
- vellétié
- veléité
- velélité
- vleléité
- vvelléité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of velléité - 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 "velléité", 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).