vieillards
\vjɛ.jaʁ\
The verdict
“vieillards” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,075
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de vieillard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieillards · vieillards · French
vieillards · rank #24,075 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,075
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vibrant
Nearest frequency peer: vibrant (-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 « vieillards »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Utrecht
Utrecht
75,929 corpus weight
- V2
V2
75,928 corpus weight
- vibrant
vibrant
75,927 corpus weight
- vieillards
vieillards
75,926 corpus weight
- vocable
vocable
75,925 corpus weight
- vrille
vrille
75,924 corpus weight
What this shows « vieillards » 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 | vieillards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɛ.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vieillards »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around vieillards (IPA \vjɛ.jaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,075 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de vieillard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for vieillards, with forms such as "iveillards", "veiillards", and "vieilalrds". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "vieillard", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vieillards, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de vieillard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vieillards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En bas, la première fournée des plaignants emplissait déjà la salle du guichet : le crémier du coin pleurant la disparition d’une caisse de camemberts, deux vieillards qui s’étaient entre-giflés devant la portière d’un autobus, un squatter et sa famille nécessiteuse expulsés d’une cave sous la menace d’un sabre de cavalerie, une grosse dame soulagée de so…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iveillards
- veiillards
- vieilalrds
- vieilards
- vieilladrs
- vieillardds
- vieillardss
- vieillarrds
- vieillarsd
- vieillrads
- vielilards
- viiellards
- vvieillards
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vieillards - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).