violettes
\vjɔ.lɛt\
The verdict
“violettes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,401
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de violet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-violettes · violettes · French
violettes · rank #28,401 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,401
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vicky
Nearest frequency peer: Vicky (-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 « violettes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verrière
verrière
71,602 corpus weight
- Vicky
Vicky
71,601 corpus weight
- violettes
violettes
71,600 corpus weight
- vitrail
vitrail
71,599 corpus weight
- VM
VM
71,598 corpus weight
- vomis
vomis
71,597 corpus weight
What this shows « violettes » 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 | violettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vjɔ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « violettes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around violettes (IPA \vjɔ.lɛt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,401 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de violet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for violettes, with forms such as "ivolettes", "viloettes", and "vioelttes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "violées", "violets", "violents", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is violettes, spelled V-I-O-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de violet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how violettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, je n’y ai pas trouvé, comme aux jours où tu partageais mon repas, la trace courbe de tes dents, qui rendait à ma bouche la mie aussi douce qu’un baiser, et c’est le cœur serré que je reprends les sentiers parsemés de pierres violettes.
Elle était chez elle, dans son appartement de la Rive Gauche, rue de l’Université, prenant à son petit déjeuner sur le mini-balcon, un café accompagné de grosses myrtilles dans leur boîte en plastique, trouée pour l’aération des boules violettes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivolettes
- viloettes
- vioelttes
- violetes
- violetets
- violettess
- violettse
- viollettes
- violtetes
- voilettes
- vviolettes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of violettes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).