verse

\vɛʁs\

/\vɛʁs\/ noun

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The verdict

“verse” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,320
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Utilisé uniquement dans à verse, pleuvoir à verse) Action de verser, état de ce qui est versé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-verse · verse · French

verse · rank #11,320 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #11,320
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH verbal

Nearest frequency peer: verbal (-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 « verse »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « verse » 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).

verse vs ves
60% similar
verse vs Vert
40% similar
verse vs visé
40% similar

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

Key facts for verse
PropertyValue
Headwordverse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vɛʁs\
Letters5
Frequency rank#11,320
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « verse »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).versese 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 « verbal » (#11,319), « vestiaire » (#11,321), « utilisait » (#11,318). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « verse » est au #11,320. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around verse (IPA \vɛʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,320 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for verse, with forms such as "evrse", "versse", and "vesre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ves", "Vert", "visé", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is verse, spelled V-E-R-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    (Utilisé uniquement dans à verse, pleuvoir à verse) Action de verser, état de ce qui est versé.
  2. 2
    Corbeille d'une contenance d'environ 35 livres, autrefois utilisée pour le transport du charbon de bois.
  3. 3
    Accident touchant certaines cultures, principalement les céréales, qui se trouvent couchées au sol entraînant le plus souvent une baisse importante du rendement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le grand sac de charbon pèse environ 125 livres. La verse de charbon en contient environ 35 livres,& la banne 25oo livres.
  2. Nous dirons en passant que les céréales sont beaucoup moins sujettes à la verse en Champagne que dans d’autres contrées.

This word in other languages

lodging(English)encamado(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • evrse
  • versse
  • vesre
  • vrese
  • vverse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

evrse2versse1vesre2vrese2vverse1
Edit distance from "verse"

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 "verse"?
"verse" is spelled V-E-R-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vɛʁs\.
What does "verse" mean?
As a noun, "verse" means: (Utilisé uniquement dans à verse, pleuvoir à verse) Action de verser, état de ce qui est versé.
What words are commonly confused with "verse"?
"verse" is commonly confused with "ves", "Vert", "visé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "verse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "verse" is \vɛʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "verse" come from?
"verse" 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 "verse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tronc#11,316viols#11,324visés#11,325avéré#11,348

Similar misspelling depth

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

Dean5 variantslake5 variantsEELV5 variantsgeek5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list