vielle
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,035
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vielle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Instrument de musique à cordes, dont on joue par le moyen de touches et d’une roue qu’on tourne avec une manivelle, qui permet de faire sonner les cordes mélodiques et bourdon, et, par accélération... Pronounced \vjɛl\. Often confused with vile and ville.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vielle is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,035 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrument de musique à cordes, dont on joue par le moyen de touches et d’une roue qu’on tourne avec une manivelle, qui permet de faire sonner les cordes mélodiques et bourdon, et, par accélération...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for vielle, with forms such as "ivelle", "viele", and "vielel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vile", "ville", "villa", 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 vielle, spelled V-I-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrument de musique à cordes, dont on joue par le moyen de touches et d’une roue qu’on tourne avec une manivelle, qui permet de faire sonner les cordes mélodiques et bourdon, et, par accélérations rapides, de faire vibrer la corde trompette et le chien pour donner un son caractéristique grésillant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivelle,viele,vielel,vilele,vvielle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vielle
Misspelling Variants of "vielle"
Frequency rank: #17,035 in French
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