vérifier
\ve.ʁi.fje\
The verdict
“vérifier” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,156. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,156
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Examiner, rechercher si une chose est vraie, si elle est telle qu’elle doit être ou qu’on l’a déclarée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verifier · vérifier · French
vérifier · rank #2,156 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,156
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH trente
Nearest frequency peer: trente (-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 « vérifier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traduction
traduction
97,848 corpus weight
- tranquille
tranquille
97,847 corpus weight
- trente
trente
97,846 corpus weight
- vérifier
vérifier
97,845 corpus weight
- écriture
écriture
97,844 corpus weight
- épreuve
épreuve
97,843 corpus weight
What this shows « vérifier » 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 | vérifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ve.ʁi.fje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vérifier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around vérifier (IPA \ve.ʁi.fje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,156 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for vérifier, with forms such as "verifier", "vréifier", and "vvérifier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "verrier", "vernier", "vérifiez", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vérifier, spelled V-É-R-I-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Examiner, rechercher si une chose est vraie, si elle est telle qu’elle doit être ou qu’on l’a déclarée.
- 2Dans l’ancienne législation, enregistrer un édit.
- 3Faire voir la vérité ou l’exactitude d’une chose, d’une proposition ou d’une assertion ; les confirmer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vérifier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vérifiez certains points de détail.
A plat ventre, près de la rampe, l'électricien vérifiait les ampoules sans s'occuper de la vedette.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- verifier
- vréifier
- vvérifier
- véirfier
- vérfiier
- vérifeir
- vériffier
- vérifierr
- vérifire
- vériifer
- vérrifier
- évrifier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vérifier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vérifier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).