vieillissant
\vjɛ.ji.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“vieillissant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,806
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui devient vieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieillissant · vieillissant · French
vieillissant · rank #21,806 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,806
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH verne
Nearest frequency peer: verne (-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 « vieillissant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- utilisais
utilisais
78,198 corpus weight
- Vargas
Vargas
78,197 corpus weight
- verne
verne
78,196 corpus weight
- vieillissant
vieillissant
78,195 corpus weight
- vietnamien
vietnamien
78,194 corpus weight
- vigoureusem…
vigoureusement
78,193 corpus weight
What this shows « vieillissant » 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 | vieillissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vjɛ.ji.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #21,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vieillissant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around vieillissant (IPA \vjɛ.ji.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,806 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui devient vieux.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for vieillissant, with forms such as "iveillissant", "veiillissant", and "vieililssant". 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, "vieillissent", "vieillissante", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is vieillissant, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui devient vieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieillissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était à Hammamet, chez un couple d’Anglais vieillissants qui partageaient leur temps entre la Tunisie et Florence et pour qui l’hospitalité semblait être devenue le seul moyen de ne pas mourir d’ennui en tête à tête.
Quand Ossip Mandelstam, déjà vieillissant, revint dans son « Moscou bouddhique » (terme qu’il a fréquemment employé), le jeune Bidia Dandarone entreprenait seulement ses préparatifs au voyage vers un Léningrad non encore « débouddhisé ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iveillissant
- veiillissant
- vieililssant
- vieilissant
- vieillisant
- vieillisasnt
- vieillissannt
- vieillissantt
- vieillissatn
- vieillissnat
- vieillsisant
- vielilissant
- viiellissant
- vvieillissant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vieillissant - 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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).