vieillir
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,821
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
vieillir is aFrenchverb. It means: Devenir vieux. Pronounced \vje.jiʁ\. Often confused with vieillit and vieillis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vieillir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vje.jiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vieillir is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vje.jiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,821 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vieillir, with forms such as "iveillir", "veiillir", and "vieililr". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "vieillit", "vieillis", "vieillot", 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 vieillir, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Devenir vieux.
- 2Paraître vieux.
- 3Perdre de sa force, de sa vigueur avec le temps, en parlant de certaines choses.
- 4Murir, perdre de la verdeur et acquérir certaines qualités, en parlant du vin.
- 5Commencer à n’être plus d’usage, à passer, à perdre de sa vogue, de son importance, de son utilité.
- 6Demeurer très longtemps dans une fonction.
- 7Rendre vieux, faire paraître plus âgé que l’on n’est.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iveillir,veiillir,vieililr,vieilir,vieillirr,vieillri,vielilir,viiellir,vvieillir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vieillir
Misspelling Variants of "vieillir"
Frequency rank: #14,821 in French
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