velvet
\vɛl.vɛ\
The verdict
“velvet” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,065. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,065
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Velours de coton lisse et imitant le velours de soie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-velvet · velvet · French
velvet · rank #33,065 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,065
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH valets
Nearest frequency peer: valets (-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 « velvet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- usufruit
usufruit
66,939 corpus weight
- valets
valets
66,937 corpus weight
- velvet
velvet
66,936 corpus weight
- venture
venture
66,935 corpus weight
- Viennois
Viennois
66,934 corpus weight
- virulence
virulence
66,933 corpus weight
What this shows « velvet » 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 | velvet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛl.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « velvet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around velvet (IPA \vɛl.vɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,065 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for velvet, with forms such as "evlvet", "velevt", and "vellvet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "veuve", "volet", "verve", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is velvet, spelled V-E-L-V-E-T.
Definition
- 1Velours de coton lisse et imitant le velours de soie.
- 2Papier velvet : papier photographique dont l'aspect est velouté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how velvet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…96 planches pet. in-folio, tirées sur papier Velvet Velox (Eastman)….
Pour des tirages photo de qualité professionnelle, optez pour ce papier velvet ultra mat
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evlvet
- velevt
- vellvet
- velvett
- velvte
- velvvet
- vevlet
- vlevet
- vvelvet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of velvet - 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 "velvet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).