venin
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,360
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
venin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poison produit, chez certains animaux, par sécrétion, et qui, introduit dans le sang d’un autre animal ou d’un homme par une morsure ou une piqûre, amène de graves désordres et même la mort. Pronounced \və.nɛ̃\. Often confused with vin and venu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | venin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \və.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for venin is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \və.nɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,360 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for venin, with forms such as "evnin", "veinn", and "veninn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vin", "venu", "vent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is venin, spelled V-E-N-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poison produit, chez certains animaux, par sécrétion, et qui, introduit dans le sang d’un autre animal ou d’un homme par une morsure ou une piqûre, amène de graves désordres et même la mort.
- 2Malignité, rancune, haine cachée.
- 3Se dit aussi figurément, en langage de dévotion, d’une doctrine dangereuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evnin,veinn,veninn,venni,vennin,vnein,vvenin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for venin
Misspelling Variants of "venin"
Frequency rank: #18,360 in French
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