vérité première
The verdict
“vérité première” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proposition évidente, qu’on ne peut démontrer, mais sans laquelle toute démonstration serait impossible ; fondement de tout raisonnement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verite-premiere · vérité première · French
vérité première · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vérité première |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vérité première » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vérité première is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vérité première, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vérité première, spelled V-É-R-I-T-É- -P-R-E-M-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Proposition évidente, qu’on ne peut démontrer, mais sans laquelle toute démonstration serait impossible ; fondement de tout raisonnement.
- 2Banalités.
- 3Considérations générales, évidences.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vérité première appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'étaient des commerçants du quartier […]. Il suffisait de les voir, d'écouter leurs propos inoffensifs, émaillés de vérités premières.
Souvent, Melville commence ses chapitres par des généralités, des sortes de vérités premières, des sentences, de vastes métaphores, avant d’introduire son sujet principal.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.