vierge
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,552
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vierge is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie une personne qui n’a pas encore eu de relations sexuelles ou un animal qui ne s’est pas encore accouplé. Pronounced \vjɛʁʒ\. It ranks #2,552 in French word frequency. Often confused with vire and vivre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vierge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \vjɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vierge is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjɛʁʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,552 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for vierge, with forms such as "iverge", "veirge", and "viegre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vire", "vivre", "vitre", 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 vierge, spelled V-I-E-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une personne qui n’a pas encore eu de relations sexuelles ou un animal qui ne s’est pas encore accouplé.
- 2Qui n’a jamais été touché, qui est intact.
- 3(Avec la préposition de) Qui n’a pas été touché, atteint, marqué par quelque chose.
- 4Qui n’est pas entaché, qui est au-dessus de tout soupçon.
- 5Qualifie les métaux qui se trouvent purs et sans mélange dans le sein de la terre.
- 6Qualifie la cire préparée, ordinairement mise en pain, et qui n’a encore été employée à aucun ouvrage.
- 7Qualifie la première huile qui sort des olives, sans qu’on les ait encore pressées.
- 8Qualifie le parchemin qui est fait de la peau des agneaux ou des chevreaux mort-nés.
- 9Qualifie une page qui n’est pas encore écrite.
- 10Qualifie un support qui n’a pas encore subi d’écriture.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iverge,veirge,viegre,viereg,viergge,vierrge,virege,vvierge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "vierge"
Frequency rank: #2,552 in French
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