violette
\vjɔ.lɛt\
The verdict
“violette” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,281. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,281
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée vivace de la famille des violacées appartenant au genre Viola.
Corpus desk
Index FR-violette · violette · French
violette · rank #12,281 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,281
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vinaigre
Nearest frequency peer: vinaigre (-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 « violette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- VIH
VIH
87,723 corpus weight
- villageois
villageois
87,722 corpus weight
- vinaigre
vinaigre
87,721 corpus weight
- violette
violette
87,720 corpus weight
- VIP
VIP
87,719 corpus weight
- voudront
voudront
87,718 corpus weight
What this shows « violette » 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 | violette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « violette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around violette (IPA \vjɔ.lɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,281 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for violette, with forms such as "ivolette", "viloette", and "vioeltte". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "violettes", "violet", "violée", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is violette, spelled V-I-O-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée vivace de la famille des violacées appartenant au genre Viola.
- 2Fleur de cette plante.
- 3Marques, taches violacées.
- 4Personne timide et modeste.
- 5Ancien nom de l’alto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how violette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je plaçai mes fleurs dans un bouquetier de cristal, et je posai celui-ci sur un cahier de papier blanc étendu sur ma table. Le suave parfum des violettes se répandit dans ma chambre… je devins rêveur […]
Donne-moi aussi le petit flacon de violette. Et quand je dis de violette… Il n’y a plus de vraie odeur de violette. Ils la font avec de l’iris. Et encore, la font-ils avec de l’iris ? Mais tu t’en moques, toi, Minet-Chéri, tu n’aimes pas l’essence de violette. Qu’ont donc nos filles, à ne plus aimer l’essence de violette ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivolette
- viloette
- vioeltte
- violete
- violetet
- viollette
- violtete
- voilette
- vviolette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of violette - 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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).