verrière

\vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\

/\vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“verrière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,399
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baie vitrée située soit en toiture, soit en façade.

Corpus desk

Index FR-verriere · verrière · French

verrière · rank #28,399 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,399
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH Vicky

Nearest frequency peer: Vicky (+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 « verrière »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « verrière » 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).

verrière vs Verviers
50% similar
verrière vs verriers
75% similar
verrière vs verrières
89% similar

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

Key facts for verrière
PropertyValue
Headwordverrière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,399
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « verrière »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).verrièrese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Vicky » (#28,400), « verbalement » (#28,397), « violettes » (#28,401). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « verrière » est au #28,399. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around verrière (IPA \vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,399 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for verrière, with forms such as "evrrière", "verirère", and "verière". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Verviers", "verriers", "verrières", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is verrière, spelled V-E-R-R-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Baie vitrée située soit en toiture, soit en façade.
  2. 2
    Vitrail de grande dimension.
  3. 3
    Grande fenêtre ornée de vitraux.
  4. 4
    Partie vitrée du poste de pilotage, de l’habitacle d’un aéronef.
  5. 5
    Cuvette à bordure crénelée dans laquelle on place des verres.
  6. 6
    Artisane qui fait du verre et des ouvrages de verre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il pleuvait. Par instants, on entendait l’averse s’écraser contre la verrière du haut, […].
  2. C’est une verrière diaprée, une filigrane gigantesque, une parure de fête, aussi ouvragées que celles d’une reine et d’une fiancée.

Synonyms

verrierverrine

This word in other languages

skylight(English)tragaluz(Español)Dachluke(Deutsch)clarabóia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evrrière
  • verirère
  • verière
  • verriere
  • verrirèe
  • verrièer
  • verrièrre
  • verrèire
  • vrerière
  • vverrière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verrière - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

evrrière2verirère2verière1verriere1verrirèe2verrièer2verrièrre1verrèire2
Edit distance from "verrière"

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 "verrière"?
"verrière" is spelled V-E-R-R-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\.
What does "verrière" mean?
As a noun, "verrière" means: Baie vitrée située soit en toiture, soit en façade.
What words are commonly confused with "verrière"?
"verrière" is commonly confused with "Verviers", "verriers", "verrières". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "verrière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "verrière" is \vɛ.ʁjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "verrière" come from?
"verrière" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

vendetta#28,395Truffaut#28,385édifiant#28,414trouille#28,383

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

vitrail10 variantsépinière10 variantstartare10 variantsadditifs10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list