virer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,715
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
virer is aFrenchverb. It means: Aller en tournant. Pronounced \vi.ʁe\. It ranks #5,715 in French word frequency. Often confused with vite and vive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | virer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for virer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,715 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for virer, with forms such as "ivrer", "vierr", and "virerr". 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, "vite", "vive", "visé", 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 virer, spelled V-I-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aller en tournant.
- 2Tourner d’un côté sur l’autre, de façon à prendre le vent par l’autre côté de la voile.
- 3Tirer sur un cordage, une chaine.
- 4Se mouvoir dans une autre direction.
- 5Donner le tournis.
- 6Faire tourner.
- 7(Poitevin-Saintongeais) Retourner.
- 8Devenir.
- 9Tourner, en parlant d'une affaire, d'une entreprise. → voir tourner
- 10Transporter un chiffre de recette ou de dépense d’un compte à un autre, d’un chapitre de budget à un autre.
- 11Tremper une épreuve dans une dissolution de sels d’or, de platine, etc., pour lui donner sa couleur et son intensité définitive.
- 12Se débarrasser de quelque chose, enlever cette chose d’un endroit.
- 13Expulser, chasser.
- 14Congédier, licencier, renvoyer, la plupart du temps sans ménagement.
- 15Jeter violemment quelque chose.
- 16Rouler.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivrer,vierr,virerr,virre,virrer,vrier,vvirer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for virer
Misspelling Variants of "virer"
Frequency rank: #5,715 in French
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