vénérer
\ve.ne.ʁe\
The verdict
“vénérer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,081
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre un culte à un dieu, à un saint ou à des choses saintes ou sacrées ; adorer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-venerer · vénérer · French
vénérer · rank #40,081 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,081
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vulve
Nearest frequency peer: vulve (-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 « vénérer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- VK
VK
59,923 corpus weight
- vla
vla
59,922 corpus weight
- vulve
vulve
59,921 corpus weight
- vénérer
vénérer
59,920 corpus weight
- worlds
worlds
59,918 corpus weight
- XXIème
XXIème
59,917 corpus weight
What this shows « vénérer » 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 | vénérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ve.ne.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vénérer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around vénérer (IPA \ve.ne.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,081 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for vénérer, with forms such as "venerer", "vnéérer", and "vvénérer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ventre", "venger", "ventres", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vénérer, spelled V-É-N-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre un culte à un dieu, à un saint ou à des choses saintes ou sacrées ; adorer.
- 2Avoir un attachement ou un respect profond pour une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vénérer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; — ceux-là le croiront qui estiment que Berthe, femme de Girard de Roussillon, a pu entrer dans la légende sans le concours des moines de Pothières, lesquels vénéraient Berthe comme leur sainte; […].
Ainsi Le Chesne-Populeux (Ardennes) et La Chapelle-Gauthier (Eure) qui vénèrent au premier chef saint Martin dans un cas et Notre-Dame dans l'autre, avouent saint Jacques pour patron.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- venerer
- vnéérer
- vvénérer
- vénnérer
- vénréer
- vénéerr
- vénérerr
- vénérre
- vénérrer
- véénrer
- évnérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vénérer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "vénérer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).