violenter
\vjɔ.lɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“violenter” is uncommon French (frequency #61,222 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,222
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraindre, faire faire par force.
Corpus desk
Index FR-violenter · violenter · French
violenter · rank #61,222 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,222
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Voigt
Nearest frequency peer: Voigt (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « violenter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vendais
vendais
38,783 corpus weight
- vermeille
vermeille
38,782 corpus weight
- violenter
violenter
38,779 corpus weight
- Voigt
Voigt
38,778 corpus weight
- vénérés
vénérés
38,776 corpus weight
- wedge
wedge
38,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « violenter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | violenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « violenter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
violenter is uncommon French at frequency #61,222 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \vjɔ.lɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for violenter, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is violenter, spelled V-I-O-L-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Contraindre, faire faire par force.
- 2Exercer des violences.
- 3Violer une personne ou commettre une tentative de viol à son encontre ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how violenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] madame d’Aiglemont sourit à l’espoir d’une prompte guérison, et n’opposa plus de résistance à la volonté de son mari, qui la violentait pour lui faire accepter les soins du jeune docteur.
On se demande si pour le plaisir de gagner un pari quelque grand qu’il soit, on a le droit de violenter des animaux qui ont, aussi bien que nous-mêmes, la conscience de la douleur qu’ils éprouvent et des mauvais traitements qu’ils reçoivent.
This word in other languages
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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