vieux
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#652
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vieux is anFrenchadj. It means: D’un certain âge (relatif à un autre). Pronounced \vjø\. It ranks #652 in French word frequency. Often confused with view and visu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \vjø\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vieux is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjø\. Corpus data places it at rank #652 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for vieux, with forms such as "iveux", "veiux", and "vieuxx". 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, "view", "visu", "virus", 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 vieux, spelled V-I-E-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1D’un certain âge (relatif à un autre).
- 2Ancien, qui existe depuis longtemps.
- 3Qui appartient à une époque passée ou dépassée.
- 4Qui a l'apparence de la vétusté ou les dehors de la vieillesse.
- 5S’emploie avec les adverbes plus et moins, et autres semblables, pour marquer la différence d’âge entre deux personnes ou choses.
- 6Personne qui exerce une profession, un métier, qui mène un certain genre de vie depuis longtemps.
- 7Sert aussi à marquer les anciennes habitudes, et surtout les habitudes vicieuses.
- 8S’emploie familièrement dans des phrases de dénigrement.
- 9S’emploie pour exprimer la vénération qu’inspire le nom d’un homme célèbre mort depuis longtemps, en laissant une grande renommée.
- 10Par comparaison et opposition à nouveau.
- 11Choses qui sont usées, principalement des habits, des meubles, par opposition à neuf.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iveux,veiux,vieuxx,viexu,viuex,vvieux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vieux
Misspelling Variants of "vieux"
Frequency rank: #652 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter V in our French index: