ver de terre
\vɛʁ də tɛːʁ\
The verdict
“ver de terre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Annélide oligochète terricole, invertébré de la famille des Lumbricidés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ver de terre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ də tɛːʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ver de terre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ver de terre is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ də tɛːʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ver de terre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 ver de terre, spelled V-E-R- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Annélide oligochète terricole, invertébré de la famille des Lumbricidés.
- 2Personne insignifiante.
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Using “ver de terre”
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- The one correct French spelling is V-E-R- -D-E- -T-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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