Verseau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,643
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
Verseau is aFrenchname. It means: Constellation du ciel austral, bordée par Pégase, le Petit Cheval, le Dauphin, l’Aigle, le Capricorne, le Poisson austral, le Sculpteur, la Baleine et les Poissons, traversée par le Soleil du 16 fé... Pronounced \vɛʁ.so\. Often confused with verser and verset.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Verseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \vɛʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Verseau is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vɛʁ.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,643 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Verseau, with forms such as "evrseau", "veresau", and "verrseau". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "verser", "verset", "versés", 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 Verseau, spelled V-E-R-S-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Constellation du ciel austral, bordée par Pégase, le Petit Cheval, le Dauphin, l’Aigle, le Capricorne, le Poisson austral, le Sculpteur, la Baleine et les Poissons, traversée par le Soleil du 16 février au 11 mars environ.
- 2Signe zodiacal, traditionnellement associé à la période entre le 21 janvier et le 19 février de chaque année.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrseau,veresau,verrseau,versaeu,verseua,versseau,vesreau,vreseau,vverseau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Verseau
Misspelling Variants of "Verseau"
Frequency rank: #36,643 in French
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