veloutée
\və.lu.te\
The verdict
“veloutée” is uncommon French (frequency #71,994 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,994
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à deux espèces de mollusques gastéropodes terrestres, dont la coquille spiralée est couverte de poils plus ou moins longs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veloutee · veloutée · French
veloutée · rank #71,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vautré
Nearest frequency peer: vautré (-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 « veloutée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Vandamme
Vandamme
28,009 corpus weight
- vautré
vautré
28,008 corpus weight
- veloutée
veloutée
28,007 corpus weight
- vernie
vernie
28,006 corpus weight
- Viala
Viala
28,005 corpus weight
- vias
vias
28,004 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « veloutée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veloutée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \və.lu.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « veloutée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
veloutée is uncommon French at frequency #71,994 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \və.lu.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à deux espèces de mollusques gastéropodes terrestres, dont la coquille spiralée est couverte de poils plus ou moins longs.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for veloutée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is veloutée, spelled V-E-L-O-U-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à deux espèces de mollusques gastéropodes terrestres, dont la coquille spiralée est couverte de poils plus ou moins longs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how veloutée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La veloutée plane fréquente la litière, le bois mort au sol et les vieux troncs des forêts.
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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