Verlaine

\vɛʁ.lɛn\

/\vɛʁ.lɛn\/ name

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The verdict

“Verlaine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,013
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour le poète Paul Verlaine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-verlaine · Verlaine · French

Verlaine · rank #28,013 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,013
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH verges

Nearest frequency peer: verges (-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 « Verlaine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Verlaine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Verlaine vs verlan
63% similar
Verlaine vs vilaine
63% similar
Verlaine vs vermine
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Verlaine
PropertyValue
HeadwordVerlaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\vɛʁ.lɛn\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,013
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Verlaine »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Verlainese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « verges » (#28,012), « verrouiller » (#28,014), « vaudois » (#28,011). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « Verlaine » est au #28,013. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Verlaine (IPA \vɛʁ.lɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,013 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour le poète Paul Verlaine.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Verlaine, with forms such as "evrlaine", "velraine", and "veraline". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "verlan", "vilaine", "vermine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Verlaine, spelled V-E-R-L-A-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour le poète Paul Verlaine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Verlaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je me décide à leur parler allemand : pour qu’ils comprennent mieux, j’emploie mon haut allemand le plus clair, la langue officielle des théâtres de Meiningen et de Weimar, le hanovrien saccadé des auteurs juifs qui déclament les traductions de Verlaine.
  2. Je vous envoie dans une gargousse cuivrée, que le soldat Brommit astiqua pour vos fleurs, Dawson, bohème érudit qui anglicisa si joliment Verlaine ; Brooke, jeune Apollon aux cheveux d’or, mort sur le chemin des Dardanelles.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evrlaine
  • velraine
  • veraline
  • verlaien
  • verlainne
  • verlanie
  • verliane
  • verllaine
  • verrlaine
  • vrelaine
  • vverlaine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Verlaine - 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.

evrlaine2velraine2veraline2verlaien2verlainne1verlanie2verliane2verllaine1
Edit distance from "Verlaine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Verlaine"?
"Verlaine" is spelled V-E-R-L-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛʁ.lɛn\.
What does "Verlaine" mean?
As a proper noun, "Verlaine" means: Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour le poète Paul Verlaine.
What words are commonly confused with "Verlaine"?
"Verlaine" is commonly confused with "verlan", "vilaine", "vermine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Verlaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Verlaine" is \vɛʁ.lɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Verlaine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Verlaine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

viendras#28,016Valencia#28,009égaliser#28,026Thornton#27,989

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

validés11 variantsémigrer11 variantstraders11 variantsaccentuée11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list