venu

\və.ny\

/\və.ny\/ verb

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The verdict

“venu” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,306
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de venir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-venu · venu · French

venu · rank #1,306 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,306
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vendre

Nearest frequency peer: vendre (-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 « venu »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « venu » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

venu vs vu
50% similar
venu vs VN
0% similar
venu vs vin
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for venu
PropertyValue
Headwordvenu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\və.ny\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,306
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « venu »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).venuse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vendre » (#1,305), « victime » (#1,307), « uniquement » (#1,304). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « venu » est au #1,306. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around venu (IPA \və.ny\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,306 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de venir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for venu, with forms such as "evnu", "vennu", and "veun". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "VN", "vin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 venu, spelled V-E-N-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de venir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how venu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La question qui l’obsède est de savoir comment on en est venu au règne de la Terreur, quels sont les « principes » qui « ont scélératisé tant de têtes ».

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evnu
  • vennu
  • veun
  • vneu
  • vvenu

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of venu - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

evnu2vennu1veun2vneu2vvenu1
Edit distance from "venu"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "venu"?
"venu" is spelled V-E-N-U. The IPA pronunciation is \və.ny\.
What does "venu" mean?
As a verb, "venu" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de venir.
What words are commonly confused with "venu"?
"venu" is commonly confused with "vu", "VN", "vin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "venu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "venu" is \və.ny\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "venu" come from?
"venu" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "venu", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tels#1,303peau#1,301lois#1,296goût#1,293

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

fasse5 variantsmari5 variantsacte5 variantsweek5 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list