verbe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,146
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
verbe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du discours qui exprime soit une action faite ou supportée par le sujet, soit un état ou une manière d’être du sujet, et qui, pour les exprimer, possède un certain nombre de formes diverses ... Pronounced \vɛʁb\. It ranks #6,146 in French word frequency. Often confused with vers and Vert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for verbe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁb\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,146 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 verbe, with forms such as "evrbe", "vebre", and "verbbe". 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, "vers", "Vert", "vire", 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 verbe, spelled V-E-R-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie du discours qui exprime soit une action faite ou supportée par le sujet, soit un état ou une manière d’être du sujet, et qui, pour les exprimer, possède un certain nombre de formes diverses dont l’ensemble est appelé conjugaison, lesquelles formes expriment son sujet et le temps de la proposition.
- 2Parole, expression de la pensée par les mots.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrbe,vebre,verbbe,vereb,verrbe,vrebe,vverbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for verbe
Misspelling Variants of "verbe"
Frequency rank: #6,146 in French
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