verglas
\vɛʁ.ɡla\
The verdict
“verglas” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,933
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couche de glace transparente, formée sur le sol par une pluie ou bruine qui se congèle à l’instant de sa chute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verglas · verglas · French
verglas · rank #33,933 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,933
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vains
Nearest frequency peer: vains (-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 « verglas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tutoriel
tutoriel
66,073 corpus weight
- unilatéral
unilatéral
66,071 corpus weight
- vains
vains
66,069 corpus weight
- verglas
verglas
66,068 corpus weight
- vertigineuse
vertigineuse
66,067 corpus weight
- voor
voor
66,065 corpus weight
What this shows « verglas » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verglas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.ɡla\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « verglas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around verglas (IPA \vɛʁ.ɡla\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,933 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Couche de glace transparente, formée sur le sol par une pluie ou bruine qui se congèle à l’instant de sa chute.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for verglas, with forms such as "evrglas", "vegrlas", and "vergals". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "verras", "Verlag", "verlan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is verglas, spelled V-E-R-G-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Couche de glace transparente, formée sur le sol par une pluie ou bruine qui se congèle à l’instant de sa chute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verglas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le verglas changeait les allées en miroirs.
Le lendemain il doit ouvrir sa poste. Il fait un temps de gueux, il y a beaucoup de verglas, mais il n'a pas le choix...
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrglas
- vegrlas
- vergals
- vergglas
- verglass
- vergllas
- verglsa
- verlgas
- verrglas
- vreglas
- vverglas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verglas - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).