vieillot
\vjɛ.jo\
The verdict
“vieillot” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,678
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a un air de vieillesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vieillot · vieillot · French
vieillot · rank #42,678 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vibe
Nearest frequency peer: vibe (-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 « vieillot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verrouillée
verrouillée
57,326 corpus weight
- ves
ves
57,325 corpus weight
- vibe
vibe
57,324 corpus weight
- vieillot
vieillot
57,323 corpus weight
- violetta
violetta
57,321 corpus weight
- virulentes
virulentes
57,320 corpus weight
What this shows « vieillot » 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 | vieillot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vjɛ.jo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vieillot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around vieillot (IPA \vjɛ.jo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,678 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for vieillot, with forms such as "iveillot", "veiillot", and "vieillott". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "vieille", "vieilli", "vieilles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vieillot, spelled V-I-E-I-L-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Qui a un air de vieillesse.
- 2Démodé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vieillot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a un petit air vieillot.
Cet enfant a quelque chose de vieillot dans le visage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iveillot
- veiillot
- vieillott
- vieillto
- vieilolt
- vieilot
- vielilot
- viiellot
- vvieillot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vieillot - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "vieillot", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).