vieillissement
\vje.jis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“vieillissement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,151
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui vieillit ; acheminement à la vieillesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieillissement · vieillissement · French
vieillissement · rank #11,151 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,151
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH versant
Nearest frequency peer: versant (-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 « vieillissement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vagin
vagin
88,853 corpus weight
- venais
venais
88,852 corpus weight
- versant
versant
88,851 corpus weight
- vieillissem…
vieillissement
88,850 corpus weight
- war
war
88,848 corpus weight
- éclats
éclats
88,847 corpus weight
What this shows « vieillissement » 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 | vieillissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vje.jis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #11,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vieillissement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around vieillissement (IPA \vje.jis.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,151 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "État de ce qui vieillit ; acheminement à la vieillesse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for vieillissement, with forms such as "iveillissement", "veiillissement", and "vieililssement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "vieillissent", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 vieillissement, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui vieillit ; acheminement à la vieillesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieillissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’espace, de graves dangers nous guettent, parmi lesquels : micrométéorites, radiations cosmiques mortelles et vieillissement accéléré en apesanteur.
La distance créée par le vieillissement du texte est certes goûtée et entre dans le jeu de l’esthétique littéraire. Mais, s’il faut répéter cette évidence, elle est aussi et d’abord subie. Elle est source d’incompréhension.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iveillissement
- veiillissement
- vieililssement
- vieilissement
- vieillisement
- vieillisesment
- vieillisseemnt
- vieillissemennt
- vieillissementt
- vieillissemetn
- vieillissemment
- vieillissemnet
- vieillissmeent
- vieillsisement
- vielilissement
- viiellissement
- vvieillissement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vieillissement - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).