ver

Name: ver, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\vɛʁ\

/\vɛʁ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“ver” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,804) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#10,804
frequency rank, French: 2,061
“V” headwords: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal invertébré long et rampant au corps cylindrique, sans membres articulés et qui correspond à plusieurs animaux comme les vers de terre, certaines larves d’insectes, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ver · ver · French

ver · rank #10,804 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #10,804
LEN-MID 3 letters
VOW-1 1 vowel
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-MID 2,061
PHOTO-FINISH value

Nearest frequency peer: value (-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.

tournées

89,200
unir

89,199
value

89,198
ver

89,197
verticale

89,196
Vénus

89,194

What this shows Les barres placent « ver » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

ver vs vu

33% similar

ver vs vi

33% similar

ver vs vs

33% similar

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

Key facts for ver
Property	Value
Headword	ver
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\vɛʁ\
Letters	3
Frequency rank	#10,804
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ver »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).verse place ici:

#10,804

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « value » (#10,803), « verticale » (#10,805), « unir » (#10,802). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « ver » est au #10,804. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for ver is neighbouring look-alikes ("vu", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \vɛʁ\. Frequency #10,804 among 2,061 “V” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

ver has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vi", "vs", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ver, spelled V-E-R.

Definition

1
Animal invertébré long et rampant au corps cylindrique, sans membres articulés et qui correspond à plusieurs animaux comme les vers de terre, certaines larves d’insectes, etc.
2
Parasite qui se développe dans le corps de l’être humain et des animaux.
3
Logiciel malveillant indépendant, ce qui le distingue d’un virus qui est intégré dans un autre logiciel, et qui se transmet d’ordinateur à ordinateur par l’internet ou tout autre réseau et perturbe le fonctionnement des systèmes concernés en s’exécutant à l’insu des utilisateurs.
4
Personne de peu de valeur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Faut-il qu’on puisse me dire : rampe, et que je sois obligé de ramper ? C’est l’allure du ver ; c’est mon allure ; nous la suivons l’un et l’autre, quand on nous laisse aller ; mais nous nous redressons, quand on nous marche sur la queue.
II y a le bigarreau tardif ou de fer, qui mûrit plus tard, & qui n'est pas si sujet aux vers que l'ordinaire : il fait un bel arbre.

This word in other languages

worm(English)gusano(Español)Wurm(Deutsch)verme(Português)

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 "ver"?

"ver" is spelled V-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛʁ\.

What does "ver" mean?

As a noun, "ver" means: Animal invertébré long et rampant au corps cylindrique, sans membres articulés et qui correspond à plusieurs animaux comme les vers de terre, certaines larves d’insectes, etc.

What words are commonly confused with "ver"?

"ver" is commonly confused with "vu", "vi", "vs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "ver"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ver" is \vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "ver" come from?

"ver" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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