verbe

/\vɛʁb\/ noun

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.

Key facts for verbe
PropertyValue
Headwordverbe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɛʁb\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,146
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 dont l’ensemble est appelé conjugaison, lesquelles formes expriment son sujet et le temps de la proposition.
  2. 2
    Parole, expression de la pensée par les mots.

This word in other languages

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"

evrbe5vebre5verbbe6vereb5verrbe6vrebe5vverbe6
Misspelling Variants of "verbe"

Frequency rank: #6,146 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "verbe"?
"verbe" is spelled V-E-R-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛʁb\.
What does "verbe" mean?
As a noun, "verbe" 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 ...
What words are commonly confused with "verbe"?
"verbe" is commonly confused with "vers", "Vert", "vire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "verbe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "verbe" is \vɛʁb\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "verbe" come from?
"verbe" 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.