Villars
The verdict
“Villars” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #23,062 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #23,062
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Dordogne.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Villars |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Villars” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Villars is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #23,062 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Villars, with forms such as "ivllars", "vilalrs", and "vilars". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "villes", "villas", "Villers", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Villars, spelled V-I-L-L-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Dordogne.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département d’Eure-et-Loir.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de la Loire.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département du Vaucluse.
- 5Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Charente intégrée dans la commune de Magnac-Lavalette-Villars.
- 6Ancien nom de la commune française Villars-les-Dombes.
- 7Ancien nom de la commune d’Oued Cheham dans la wilaya de Guelma en Algérie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivllars,vilalrs,vilars,villarrs,villarss,villasr,villras,vlilars,vvillars
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Villars - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Villars”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is V-I-L-L-A-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “villes” - see the side-by-side comparison. Villars vs villes
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.