violet
\vjɔ.lɛ\
The verdict
“violet” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,919. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,919
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une couleur qui rappelle celle de la violette, de l’améthyste et constitue l’une des couleurs en limite du spectre visible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-violet · violet · French
violet · rank #7,919 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,919
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH violer
Nearest frequency peer: violer (-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 « violet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- veuille
veuille
92,085 corpus weight
- violemment
violemment
92,084 corpus weight
- violer
violer
92,083 corpus weight
- violet
violet
92,082 corpus weight
- virage
virage
92,081 corpus weight
- écraser
écraser
92,080 corpus weight
What this shows « violet » 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 | violet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « violet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around violet (IPA \vjɔ.lɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,919 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for violet, with forms such as "ivolet", "viloet", and "vioelt". 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, "volé", "volt", "voler", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 violet, spelled V-I-O-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1D’une couleur qui rappelle celle de la violette, de l’améthyste et constitue l’une des couleurs en limite du spectre visible.
- 2Couleur de la robe d’un vin rouge, indiquant une maturité faible, moindre qu’une robe de couleur « grenat ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how violet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un homme, enveloppé dans un grand manteau violet et conduisant un char, a vu de loin le tour de force de Lambique.
COULEUR incolore, violet, pourpre, vert, jaune, orangé, rose, rose-orangé (« Padparadscha »), noir (étoilé), parfois polychrome ou dichroïque
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivolet
- viloet
- vioelt
- violett
- viollet
- violte
- voilet
- vviolet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of violet - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).