violent
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,970
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
violent is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est impétueux, qui agit avec impétuosité, avec une force non contenue, en parlant des évènements, des choses ou des personnes et de leurs actes. Pronounced \vjɔ.lɑ̃\. It ranks #3,970 in French word frequency. Often confused with volet and vivent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for violent is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vjɔ.lɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,970 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for violent, with forms such as "ivolent", "viloent", and "vioelnt". 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, "volet", "vivent", "voient", 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 violent, spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est impétueux, qui agit avec impétuosité, avec une force non contenue, en parlant des évènements, des choses ou des personnes et de leurs actes.
- 2Qualifie un vent de tempête, ou tout autre phénomène météorologique qui cause beaucoup de dégâts.
- 3Qualifie une mort causée par force ou par quelque accident, et non par une cause naturelle et ordinaire.
- 4Qui emploie volontiers la violence par intérêt ou par goût, particulièrement la violence physique ou sexuelle.
- 5(Employé avec une négation) Pas compliqué, pépère.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivolent,viloent,vioelnt,violennt,violentt,violetn,viollent,violnet,voilent,vviolent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for violent
Misspelling Variants of "violent"
Frequency rank: #3,970 in French
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