vierge

/\vjɛʁʒ\/ adj

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.

Key facts for vierge
PropertyValue
Headwordvierge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\vjɛʁʒ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,552
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vierge in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Qualifie une personne qui n’a pas encore eu de relations sexuelles ou un animal qui ne s’est pas encore accouplé.
  2. 2
    Qui n’a jamais été touché, qui est intact.
  3. 3
    (Avec la préposition de) Qui n’a pas été touché, atteint, marqué par quelque chose.
  4. 4
    Qui n’est pas entaché, qui est au-dessus de tout soupçon.
  5. 5
    Qualifie les métaux qui se trouvent purs et sans mélange dans le sein de la terre.
  6. 6
    Qualifie la cire préparée, ordinairement mise en pain, et qui n’a encore été employée à aucun ouvrage.
  7. 7
    Qualifie la première huile qui sort des olives, sans qu’on les ait encore pressées.
  8. 8
    Qualifie le parchemin qui est fait de la peau des agneaux ou des chevreaux mort-nés.
  9. 9
    Qualifie une page qui n’est pas encore écrite.
  10. 10
    Qualifie 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vierge

Misspelling Variants of "vierge"

iverge6veirge6viegre6viereg6viergge7vierrge7virege6vvierge7
Misspelling Variants of "vierge"

Frequency rank: #2,552 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vierge"?
"vierge" is spelled V-I-E-R-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vjɛʁʒ\.
What does "vierge" mean?
As an adj, "vierge" means: Qualifie une personne qui n’a pas encore eu de relations sexuelles ou un animal qui ne s’est pas encore accouplé.
What words are commonly confused with "vierge"?
"vierge" is commonly confused with "vire", "vivre", "vitre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vierge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vierge" is \vjɛʁʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vierge" come from?
"vierge" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.