vielleicht

/\fi.ˈlaɪ̯çt\/ adv

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

vielleicht is anFrenchadv. It means: Peut-être. Pronounced \fi.ˈlaɪ̯çt\.

Key facts for vielleicht
PropertyValue
Headwordvielleicht
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\fi.ˈlaɪ̯çt\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vielleicht is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vielleicht is 10 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fi.ˈlaɪ̯çt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for vielleicht in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 vielleicht, spelled V-I-E-L-L-E-I-C-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Peut-être.
  2. 2
    Environ, à peu près.
  3. 3
    (adverbe pour mettre l’accent sur une affirmation)
  4. 4
    utiliser pour exprimer und question ou proposition polie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vielleicht"?
"vielleicht" is spelled V-I-E-L-L-E-I-C-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fi.ˈlaɪ̯çt\.
What does "vielleicht" mean?
As an adv, "vielleicht" means: Peut-être.
How do you pronounce "vielleicht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vielleicht" is \fi.ˈlaɪ̯çt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vielleicht" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.