violence

\vjɔ.lɑ̃s\

/\vjɔ.lɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“violence” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,463
frequency rank, French
2,061
“V” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Impétuosité ; force non contenue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-violence · violence · French

violence · rank #1,463 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,463
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,061
  • PHOTO-FINISH vidéos

Nearest frequency peer: vidéos (-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 « violence »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « violence » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

violence vs violent
75% similar
violence vs violents
75% similar
violence vs violette
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for violence
PropertyValue
Headwordviolence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vjɔ.lɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,463
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « violence »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).violencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « vidéos » (#1,462), « voire » (#1,464), « tirer » (#1,460). Parmi 2,061 lemmes en « V », « violence » est au #1,463. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around violence (IPA \vjɔ.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,463 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for violence, with forms such as "ivolence", "viloence", and "vioelnce". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "violent", "violents", "violette", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is violence, spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Impétuosité ; force non contenue.
  2. 2
    Force dont on use contre le droit commun, contre les lois, contre la liberté publique.
  3. 3
    Force que l’on use dans la contestation sociale ou dans la répression des conflits sociaux.
  4. 4
    Action physique ou psychologique accomplie pour obliger autrui à faire ou ne pas faire quelque chose, pour exprimer sa colère ou son désaccord, ou uniquement pour faire du mal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how violence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si elle tenait encore debout, c’était bien par miracle, car la violence du feu concentré dans l’intérieur du bâtiment l’avait trouée par places, comme auraient pu le faire des boulets de canon.
  2. Se venger, les tuer ! La violence naturelle à son tempérament sanguin lui dicta les pires conseils.

Synonyms

ardeurbrutalitéforcefouguefureursévicesvirulence

Antonyms

calmedouceurnon-violencepaixtendresse

This word in other languages

violence(English)violencia(Español)Gewalttätigkeit(Deutsch)violência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ivolence
  • viloence
  • vioelnce
  • violecne
  • violencce
  • violenec
  • violennce
  • viollence
  • violnece
  • voilence
  • vviolence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of violence - 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.

ivolence2viloence2vioelnce2violecne2violencce1violenec2violennce1viollence1
Edit distance from "violence"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "violence"?
"violence" is spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vjɔ.lɑ̃s\.
What does "violence" mean?
As a noun, "violence" means: Impétuosité ; force non contenue.
What words are commonly confused with "violence"?
"violence" is commonly confused with "violent", "violents", "violette". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "violence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "violence" is \vjɔ.lɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "violence" come from?
"violence" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "violence", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

remettre#1,455parcours#1,448football#1,479intérêts#1,481

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

faudrait11 variantscouleurs11 variantsplanète11 variantschiffres11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list