verrou

\ve.ʁu\

/\ve.ʁu\/ noun

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The verdict

“verrou” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,311
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce de fer fixée sur une porte ou une fenêtre et qui, poussée dans une gâchette, empêche d’ouvrir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-verrou · verrou · French

verrou · rank #20,311 · 6 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,311
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vacants

Nearest frequency peer: vacants (-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 « verrou »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « verrou » 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).

verrou vs vertu
67% similar
verrou vs verso
67% similar
verrou vs verrous
86% similar

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

Key facts for verrou
PropertyValue
Headwordverrou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ve.ʁu\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,311
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « verrou »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).verrouse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vacants » (#20,310), « verticales » (#20,312), « ustensiles » (#20,309). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « verrou » est au #20,311. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around verrou (IPA \ve.ʁu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,311 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for verrou, with forms such as "evrrou", "veroru", and "verou". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "vertu", "verso", "verrous", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 verrou, spelled V-E-R-R-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce de fer fixée sur une porte ou une fenêtre et qui, poussée dans une gâchette, empêche d’ouvrir.
  2. 2
    Système permettant l’accès à une ressource partagée par au plus un seul processus simultanément.
  3. 3
    Diminution de la largeur et l’élévation du plancher rocheux d’une vallée glaciaire dans un endroit où la roche est plus résistante à l’érosion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […], deux autres portes s’ouvraient sur ma chambre ; mais d’énormes verrous, placés à ces portes, et qui se tiraient de mon côté, suffisaient pour me rassurer.
  2. […] il remarqua que la porte de dehors n’était fermée qu’au loquet alors que, la veille au soir, il était sûr d’avoir poussé le verrou.

Synonyms

targette

This word in other languages

bolt(English)cerrojo(Español)Riegel(Deutsch)ferrolho(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evrrou
  • veroru
  • verou
  • verruo
  • vrerou
  • vverrou

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

evrrou2veroru2verou1verruo2vrerou2vverrou1
Edit distance from "verrou"

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 "verrou"?
"verrou" is spelled V-E-R-R-O-U. The IPA pronunciation is \ve.ʁu\.
What does "verrou" mean?
As a noun, "verrou" means: Pièce de fer fixée sur une porte ou une fenêtre et qui, poussée dans une gâchette, empêche d’ouvrir.
What words are commonly confused with "verrou"?
"verrou" is commonly confused with "vertu", "verso", "verrous". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "verrou"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "verrou" is \ve.ʁu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "verrou" come from?
"verrou" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

viking#20,313tourna#20,304titans#20,299tisser#20,298

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

épine6 variantsAdama6 variantsarabo6 variantsassoir6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list