vieillesse
\vjɛ.jɛs\
The verdict
“vieillesse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,322
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Âge avancé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieillesse · vieillesse · French
vieillesse · rank #11,322 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,322
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vestiaire
Nearest frequency peer: vestiaire (-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 « vieillesse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verbal
verbal
88,682 corpus weight
- verse
verse
88,681 corpus weight
- vestiaire
vestiaire
88,680 corpus weight
- vieillesse
vieillesse
88,679 corpus weight
- vierges
vierges
88,678 corpus weight
- viols
viols
88,677 corpus weight
What this shows « vieillesse » 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 | vieillesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɛ.jɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vieillesse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around vieillesse (IPA \vjɛ.jɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,322 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vieillesse, with forms such as "iveillesse", "veiillesse", and "vieilelsse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "vieilles", "veilleuse", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is vieillesse, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Âge avancé.
- 2Vétusté, ancienneté, en parlant de choses.
- 3Personnes âgées en général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieillesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
II y a six degrés d’âges ; savoir : l’enfance proprement dite, infantia ; la seconde enfance, pueritia; l’adolescence, la virilité, la vieillesse et la décrépitude.
C’était elle qui assumait dans la maison les travaux de l’homme que sa vieillesse lui eût rendus difficiles. Combien de ménagères auraient, d’elles-mêmes, pris cette initiative généreuse !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iveillesse
- veiillesse
- vieilelsse
- vieilesse
- vieillese
- vieilleses
- vieillsese
- vielilesse
- viiellesse
- vvieillesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vieillesse - 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.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vieillesse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).