vils
\vil\
The verdict
“vils” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,805
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de vil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vils · vils · French
vils · rank #44,805 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,805
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Victorien
Nearest frequency peer: Victorien (-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 « vils »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vb
vb
55,199 corpus weight
- vero
vero
55,198 corpus weight
- Victorien
Victorien
55,197 corpus weight
- vils
vils
55,196 corpus weight
- viscéral
viscéral
55,195 corpus weight
- vé
vé
55,194 corpus weight
What this shows « vils » 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 | vils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vil\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vils »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around vils (IPA \vil\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,805 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de vil.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for vils, with forms such as "ivls", "vills", and "vilss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vs", "VL", "vos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is vils, spelled V-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de vil.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivls
- vills
- vilss
- visl
- vlis
- vvils
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vils - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vils", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).