verre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,500
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
verre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matière solide, amorphe, transparente, dure et fragile, élaborée à l’aide de sable siliceux, mêlée de calcaire, de soude ou de potasse, avec laquelle on fabrique des produits plats, comme les vitra... Pronounced \vɛʁ\. It ranks #1,500 in French word frequency. Often confused with vers and Vert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for verre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,500 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for verre, with forms such as "evrre", "vere", and "verer". 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, "vers", "Vert", "vire", 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 verre, spelled V-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Matière solide, amorphe, transparente, dure et fragile, élaborée à l’aide de sable siliceux, mêlée de calcaire, de soude ou de potasse, avec laquelle on fabrique des produits plats, comme les vitrages, des produits creux, comme la gobeleterie, les bouteilles, etc., et des fibres à l’usage de la construction.
- 2Objet de cette matière.
- 3Système optique utilisé par exemple sur les lunettes.
- 4Récipient cylindrique, de verre, de plastique, de carton ou de papier, servant notamment à la consommation des boissons.
- 5Contenu d'un verre à boire.
- 6Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)…
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrre,vere,verer,vrere,vverre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for verre
Misspelling Variants of "verre"
Frequency rank: #1,500 in French
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