verlan
\vɛʁ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“verlan” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,674
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Argot français consistant à inverser les syllabes ou les sons d’un mot, avec restauration phonétique et graphique des « e » disparus, accompagnée de changement de timbre de ces « e ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-verlan · verlan · French
verlan · rank #42,674 · 9 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,674
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verrouillée
Nearest frequency peer: verrouillée (+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 « verlan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- USC
USC
57,331 corpus weight
- utérine
utérine
57,330 corpus weight
- verlan
verlan
57,327 corpus weight
- verrouillée
verrouillée
57,326 corpus weight
- ves
ves
57,325 corpus weight
- vibe
vibe
57,324 corpus weight
What this shows « verlan » 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 | verlan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « verlan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around verlan (IPA \vɛʁ.lɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,674 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Argot français consistant à inverser les syllabes ou les sons d’un mot, avec restauration phonétique et graphique des « e » disparus, accompagnée de changement de timbre de ces « e ».".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for verlan, with forms such as "evrlan", "velran", and "veraln". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "vern", "vlan", "verra", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is verlan, spelled V-E-R-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Argot français consistant à inverser les syllabes ou les sons d’un mot, avec restauration phonétique et graphique des « e » disparus, accompagnée de changement de timbre de ces « e ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verlan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois, bien que les exemples de verlan dans le corpus soient nombreux, la langue du rap n’est pas une langue vraiment argotique.
La couleur de la peau n’est pas un tabou dans ces quartiers. Loin du politiquement correct, on parle en verlan de rebeu, de renoi, de babtou pour arabe, noir ou blanc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrlan
- velran
- veraln
- verlann
- verllan
- verlna
- verrlan
- vrelan
- vverlan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verlan - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).