vérité

/\ve.ʁi.te\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#799

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vérité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caractère de ce qui est vrai, conformité d’un récit, d’une relation avec un fait, de ce que l’on dit avec ce que l’on pense. Pronounced \ve.ʁi.te\. It ranks #799 in French word frequency. Often confused with vite and Vert.

Key facts for vérité
PropertyValue
Headwordvérité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ve.ʁi.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#799
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vérité is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ve.ʁi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #799 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for vérité, with forms such as "verite", "vréité", and "vvérité". 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, "vite", "Vert", "verre", 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 vérité, spelled V-É-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est vrai, conformité d’un récit, d’une relation avec un fait, de ce que l’on dit avec ce que l’on pense.
  2. 2
    Ce qui est vrai de façon immuable et de toute éternité.
  3. 3
    Ce qui est accepté comme étant vrai par un consensus général.
  4. 4
    Conformité de l’idée avec son objet, par opposition à erreur.
  5. 5
    Personnification de cette vérité.
  6. 6
    Axiome, principe certain, maxime constante.
  7. 7
    Sincérité ; bonne foi.
  8. 8
    Imitation, expression fidèle de la nature.
  9. 9
    Caractère profond et authentique d’une personne.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: verite,vréité,vvérité,véirté,véritté,vériét,vérrité,vértié,évrité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vérité

Misspelling Variants of "vérité"

verite6vréité6vvérité7véirté6véritté7vériét6vérrité7vértié6
Misspelling Variants of "vérité"

Frequency rank: #799 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vérité"?
"vérité" is spelled V-É-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ve.ʁi.te\.
What does "vérité" mean?
As a noun, "vérité" means: Caractère de ce qui est vrai, conformité d’un récit, d’une relation avec un fait, de ce que l’on dit avec ce que l’on pense.
What words are commonly confused with "vérité"?
"vérité" is commonly confused with "vite", "Vert", "verre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vérité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vérité" is \ve.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vérité" come from?
"vérité" 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.