Versailles

/\vɛʁ.saj\/ name

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,630

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Versailles is aFrenchname. It means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département des Yvelines. Pronounced \vɛʁ.saj\. It ranks #4,630 in French word frequency.

Key facts for Versailles
PropertyValue
HeadwordVersailles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\vɛʁ.saj\
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,630
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Versailles in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Versailles is 10 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ.saj\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,630 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 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Versailles, with forms such as "evrsailles", "verasilles", and "verrsailles". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Versailles, spelled V-E-R-S-A-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département des Yvelines.
  2. 2
    La cour royale de l’Ancien Régime.
  3. 3
    Gouvernement français lors de la Commune de Paris en 1871.
  4. 4
    Traité de paix signé à la localité éponyme entre la France, le Royaume-Uni, l’Allemagne, l’Italie et les États-Unis après la Première Guerre mondiale en 1919.
  5. 5
    Séjour somptueux d’un prince, d’un roi ou d’un empereur.
  6. 6
    Nom donné à un modèle de voiture française de la série Vedette, produit par Simca de 1954 à 1957.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: evrsailles,verasilles,verrsailles,versailels,versailes,versailless,versaillse,versaliles,versialles,verssailles,vesrailles,vresailles,vversailles

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Versailles

Misspelling Variants of "Versailles"

evrsailles10verasilles10verrsailles11versailels10versailes9versailless11versaillse10versaliles10
Misspelling Variants of "Versailles"

Frequency rank: #4,630 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Versailles"?
"Versailles" is spelled V-E-R-S-A-I-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛʁ.saj\.
What does "Versailles" mean?
As a name, "Versailles" means: Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département des Yvelines.
What are common misspellings of "Versailles"?
Common misspellings include "evrsailles", "verasilles", "verrsailles", "versailels", "versailes". The correct spelling is "Versailles".
How do you pronounce "Versailles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Versailles" is \vɛʁ.saj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Versailles" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.