veste
\vɛst\
The verdict
“veste” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,536. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,536
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de vêtement court et sans basques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-veste · veste · French
veste · rank #4,536 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,536
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH ultime
Nearest frequency peer: ultime (-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 « veste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trajet
trajet
95,468 corpus weight
- trouvera
trouvera
95,467 corpus weight
- ultime
ultime
95,466 corpus weight
- veste
veste
95,465 corpus weight
- viendra
viendra
95,464 corpus weight
- vingtaine
vingtaine
95,463 corpus weight
What this shows « veste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | veste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɛst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « veste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around veste (IPA \vɛst\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,536 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for veste, with forms such as "evste", "veset", and "vesste". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "veut", "vite", "vote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is veste, spelled V-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de vêtement court et sans basques.
- 2Chemise à manches longues (ou cardigan) et souvent à fermeture éclair habituellement portée l’hiver.
- 3Échec, déconvenue.
- 4Une des trois ou quatre enveloppes successives du cocon du ver à soie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how veste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Pourquoi le caches-tu ? avait demandé Hortense. — Il est en veste, avait répliqué la vieille fille en riant.
Les femmes, très coquettes, revêtent en général le costume traditionnel ; la petite veste très serrée moulant le torse et les bras, passe dans la ceinture d’une culotte flottante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evste
- veset
- vesste
- vestte
- vetse
- vsete
- vveste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of veste - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).