violent

/\vjɔ.lɑ̃\/ adj

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.

Key facts for violent
PropertyValue
Headwordviolent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\vjɔ.lɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,970
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of violent in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Qualifie un vent de tempête, ou tout autre phénomène météorologique qui cause beaucoup de dégâts.
  3. 3
    Qualifie une mort causée par force ou par quelque accident, et non par une cause naturelle et ordinaire.
  4. 4
    Qui emploie volontiers la violence par intérêt ou par goût, particulièrement la violence physique ou sexuelle.
  5. 5
    (Employé avec une négation) Pas compliqué, pépère.

Synonyms

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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"

ivolent7viloent7vioelnt7violennt8violentt8violetn7viollent8violnet7
Misspelling Variants of "violent"

Frequency rank: #3,970 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "violent"?
"violent" is spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \vjɔ.lɑ̃\.
What does "violent" mean?
As an adj, "violent" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "violent"?
"violent" is commonly confused with "volet", "vivent", "voient". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "violent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "violent" is \vjɔ.lɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "violent" come from?
"violent" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.