Villiers
\vi.lje\
The verdict
“Villiers” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,577. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,577
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-villiers · Villiers · French
Villiers · rank #14,577 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,577
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vegan
Nearest frequency peer: vegan (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Villiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trottoirs
trottoirs
85,427 corpus weight
- vegan
vegan
85,425 corpus weight
- Villiers
Villiers
85,424 corpus weight
- vita
vita
85,423 corpus weight
- voirie
voirie
85,422 corpus weight
- wade
wade
85,421 corpus weight
What this shows « Villiers » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Villiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \vi.lje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Villiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Villiers (IPA \vi.lje\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,577 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Villiers, with forms such as "ivlliers", "viliers", and "vililers". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "viviers", "voiliers", "villes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Villiers, spelled V-I-L-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Villiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec : Michaël Hirsch, Simon Larvaron, Salomé Villiers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivlliers
- viliers
- vililers
- villeirs
- villierrs
- villierss
- villiesr
- villires
- vliliers
- vvilliers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Villiers - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).