venir

/\və.niʁ\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#548

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

venir is aFrenchverb. It means: Se rendre sur le lieu où se trouve celui qui parle ou dont on parle. Pronounced \və.niʁ\. It ranks #548 in French word frequency. Often confused with ver and vir.

Key facts for venir
PropertyValue
Headwordvenir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\və.niʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#548
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of venir in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for venir is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \və.niʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #548 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 14 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 venir, with forms such as "evnir", "veinr", and "venirr". 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, "ver", "vir", "voir", 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 venir, spelled V-E-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se rendre sur le lieu où se trouve celui qui parle ou dont on parle.
  2. 2
    S’étendre jusqu’à un point précis, atteindre une limite.
  3. 3
    Survenir, arriver, se produire inopinément ou fortuitement.
  4. 4
    Se déplacer en sens inverse, quand celui qui parle invite un autre à l’accompagner.
  5. 5
    Parvenir à la connaissance de quelqu’un.
  6. 6
    Arriver par succession, échoir.
  7. 7
    Succéder.
  8. 8
    Provenir de ; trouver son origine dans.
  9. 9
    Naître → voir venir au monde.
  10. 10
    Pousser ; croître ; être produit.
  11. 11
    Devenir.
  12. 12
    Semi-auxiliaire du passé récent. → voir venir de.
  13. 13
    Forme impersonnelle, voir aussi revenir.
  14. 14
    Jouir.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: evnir,veinr,venirr,vennir,venri,vneir,vvenir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for venir

Misspelling Variants of "venir"

evnir5veinr5venirr6vennir6venri5vneir5vvenir6
Misspelling Variants of "venir"

Frequency rank: #548 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "venir"?
"venir" is spelled V-E-N-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \və.niʁ\.
What does "venir" mean?
As a verb, "venir" means: Se rendre sur le lieu où se trouve celui qui parle ou dont on parle.
What words are commonly confused with "venir"?
"venir" is commonly confused with "ver", "vir", "voir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "venir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "venir" is \və.niʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "venir" come from?
"venir" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.