vérité
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vérité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ve.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Caractère 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.
- 2Ce qui est vrai de façon immuable et de toute éternité.
- 3Ce qui est accepté comme étant vrai par un consensus général.
- 4Conformité de l’idée avec son objet, par opposition à erreur.
- 5Personnification de cette vérité.
- 6Axiome, principe certain, maxime constante.
- 7Sincérité ; bonne foi.
- 8Imitation, expression fidèle de la nature.
- 9Caractère profond et authentique d’une personne.
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #799 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our French index: